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The AFL team was renamed the New York Jets.
When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople, they renamed the city Istanbul. The city still retains that name, Istanbul, Turkey.
The ancient Greek city of Byzantium was later renamed Constantinople.
Constantine the Great. The new capital city Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after him.
The city of Stalingrad , now renamed Volgograd after the river , was named after the Russian dictator Josef Stalin .
The city was renamed Istanbul under the Islamic Turks.
Chicago, Illinois is known as the Second City.
The city of Byzantium was designated as the imperial capital of Constantine, who redeveloped it and renamed it Constantinople after himself (It means City of Constantine). Today it is called Istanbul.
Taipei City ps don't mix up with this term because recently Taipei county is renamed New Taipei city, which is not the same as Taipei city
Constantine the Great redeveloped the city of Byzantium, turned it into the capital of the eastern part of the Roman empire (moving it from the nearby Nicomedia in northwestern Turkey) and renamed it Constantinople (city of Constantine) in 330. Nowadays Constantinople is the Turkish city of Istanbul.