I have seen countries change their name during my lifetime. / myLot

Chile

October 4, 2023 10:44am CST

Things change. I change I have seen countries change their name. I can still remember the beautiful stamps I was given when I was a child. They were from Cyrenaica and Eritrea. Later on, my sister in law married an English member of the English Embassy and went to live in Rhodesia. Do they still exist? I do hope that the animals pictured in the stamps still do. But their names might have changed. Now Rhodesia is Zimbabwe. My first post today was deleted. I cannot say that it was because I clicked on a wrong letter. I am sure that it was because I typed the right letters. So be it. So today I´ll wash clothes (the sun is bright) and go on trying to find a med for my ears that disappeared. Later I´ll cook, eat and do some chores. I love you all. See you. Or not.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (13218)

• Ireland

4 Oct 23

@marguicha @fleura Two weeks after our family moved to Nyasaland in 1964 it changed its name to Malawi. All very confusing for a 6 year old boy.

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Fleur

@Fleura (31013)

• United Kingdom

4 Oct 23

My friend's Italian father-in-law lived in several different countries without ever moving from Trieste!

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (13218)

• Ireland

4 Oct 23

@Fleura Ah Trieste. A chequered history it has indeed. And if there’s ever a united Ireland I’ll completely forget who I am. I’ll suddenly become … oh it’s too complicated.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (111792)

• Marion, Ohio

4 Oct 23

I hope you find your medicine

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sreejithsreenivas

@sreejithsreenivas (10200)

• India

4 Oct 23

I am from India and our government is planning to change our nations name to Bharat

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (171528)

• Boise, Idaho

4 Oct 23

We used to hang our wash outside. So nice.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (47375)

• India

4 Oct 23

Actually There was Northern Rhodesia - now Zambia Southern Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe Turkey is now Turkiye Plus more name and entity changes. Remember Yugoslavia - which got divided into multiple countries. I need to check for more name changes as well.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (472492)

• Switzerland

4 Oct 23

I remember very well that in the past Iran was called Persia (they had the Shas Reza Pahlavi and they made a big mistake wanting to change). Holland was officially changed to "The Netherlands" in 2020. The list is long.

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Sanjeev

@sjvg1976 (41710)

• Delhi, India

5 Oct 23

There are chances that name of my country India will change to Bharat soon. There have been change of the name of several cities in the past.

OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (92063)

• United States

4 Oct 23

I changed my own last name many times due to marriage.

RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (82565)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

4 Oct 23

I hope you had a good day. My countdown continues for two more days and groceries, Whenever I write my travel posts I always have to check out facts first about countries and locations,

Fleur

@Fleura (31013)

• United Kingdom

4 Oct 23

Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia in the 1950s and regained independence in the 1990s. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980. I had never heard of Cyrenaica before; apparently it's part of Libya. Yes names do change, even countries change. When I was a child there was the USSR, East and West Germany, Cyprus (all one country), Czechoslovakia. Rhodesia was still the name of Zimbabwe, Myanmar was Burma, Laos was part of Vietnam I think, Sri Lanka was Ceylon.

LindaOH

@LindaOHio (183918)

• United States

5 Oct 23

There have been so many name changes for countries over the last 50 years or so. Have a great day.