alternate names

This isn't a question about a Communist/Socialist Britain in general, this is about what it would name things if it was the very first to experience a revolution. So no Communes of France, Deutsche Raterepubliken, or Workers' Soviets. What would they call things like their workers' councils, as...

Working on my TL, I'm looking for alternate names that could have been given to OTL America in a world where neither Christopher Columbus or Amerigo Vespucci existed. Just now, I'm planning to have a group of Cathars settling in North America in the 1230s but not trying to conquer it. They'll...

When Africa was largely under the control of European powers, borders between the various colonies were generally drawn arbitrarily without regard to population boundaries. This meant that when colonialism ended, more creativity was needed to come up with names for the newly-independent...

Howdy all, I’m writing this thread because I need help coming up with alternate names for the continent of Africa. I’m doing an alternate history where there is a nation named Africa, and I don’t want it to share a name with its continent. Assuming all languages and colonization patterns went...

Out of the 50 states of the United States, only 24 of them have names deriving indigenous languages, however, some of those names, such as Mississippi, New Mexico, and Wyoming, have names deriving from indigenous languages that are spoken by neither local nor nearby indigenous tribes. So, what...

If California was not discovered by the Spaniards first, then what would've California, and it's regions been called instead? By english explorers? By Russians or Japanese? Did the natives of California have a name for their homelands? (Also looking for alternate place names for regions such...

Hey everyone, I'm just looking for some names for some alternate American and Canadian cities to exist in my new timeline I'm currently developing e.g. Dana Point - Seabrook City Anything you have to offer is appreciated! Cheers!

What would be a suitable alternative name for native Americans besides the ones currently in use like aboriginal, Amerindian, and native Americans?

______________________________ ______________________________ 'In search of better things, Over the Ocean we sailed, In search of the light bright, We built our new homes.' From the shores of great lakes, To the shores of east and west, From the frost of the north, To the scorch of the...

Assuming people realized that it might be confusing to have a state have the same name as the national capital (*cough*), what's an alternate name that could have been given to Washington State?

'The Far Eastern Republic' just doesn't sound like a name that would ever really be used outside of half-formed plans and possibly administrative files. So what would some other names for the FER be? Things they might have been named from the start, things that it might have been renamed if they...

How could the name of the country we call the United States of America, through some alternate path of history, change to something that includes a recent foreign loanword? By this I mean a word like Soviet, Junta, Bourgeois, Proletariat, Raj, Zollverein, etc. Any sort of loanword from another...

This thread is for posting any alternate names for any area of the world that you can think of. Make sure to include the place it is renaming and maybe a short description of the place or the name. Here are mine: 1. Meridia - A beautiful Latin sounding name for the American South (would...

Does anybody have any ideas on alternate names for positions in the US Government, such as Attorney General or referring to those in charge of US departments as secretaries? Any ideas that you have are welcome, thank-you.