Beijing was formerly known as Peking.
It is a city. It used to be called Bombay. It is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
It used to be called Peking, meaning northern plateau. Now it is Beijing, meaning Northern capital. (and yes, there is a city named southern capital too.)
Harare, which used to be Salisbury is the largest city and capital.
China's capital used to be called Peking.It used to be called Peking. But the Capital back then was still the same as the capital today but just different name.
The country whose capital city was formerly known as Philadelphia is the United States of America. Philadelphia served as the temporary capital of the United States from 1790 to 1800 before the capital was moved to Washington, D.C.
Warsaw is the capital city, and krakow used to be, so it is still a big city
Istanbul, Capital city of Turkey
i don't know but dublin is the capital city of Ireland No its called a short club used as a weapon It's also called a Mere
Istanbul used to be called Byzantium and Constantinople. The city was once home to the capital of the Roman Empire and at one time the Ottoman Empire. Today it is the 20th most populated city in the world.
it used to be the capital city of west Germany which is all I know.
An asterisk (*) is commonly used to denote the capital city of a country on a map or in geographical contexts.
The capital of Russia is Moscow, but it WAS St. Petersburg.