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Some extraordinary events/eras/places/persons/etc. are known to international audiences as THE common nouns (often in the form of loanwords), no need for the proper nouns to disambiguate, e.g.,

Il Risorgimento: the resurgence (of Italy)
Der Anschluss: the annexation (of Austria into Germany)
L'Ancien Régime: the ancien régime (before the French Revolution)
Urbs: City (of Rome) as in Urbi et Orbi
The Acropolis (in Athens)
The Kremlin (in Moscow)
The Bard (William Shakespeare)
Der Führer: the Leader (Adolf Hitler)
Il Duce: the Leader (Benito Mussolini)
La Gioconda: the Smiling (Mona Lisa)

Are there metonym+capitonym being referred to as such only in particular languages (therefore not well-known internationally) you would like to see being borrowed into as many languages as possible?
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