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Re:Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute... by pavlov on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @03:46PM (#17297276)
In both cases, the bigger and more powerful side got to keep the plain name and the other side had to settle for a geographic prefix.
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Re:Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute... by pwinnski on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:09PM (#17297508)
As I understand it, both sides had prefixes: Baja and Alta. After the US took Alta California, they dropped that prefix. Mexico was never forced to add one.
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Re:Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute... by pavlov on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:28PM (#17298199)
They dropped the prefix because Mexico wasn't in a position to object. I wouldn't be surprised if many expected at the time that the newly founded US state would annex Baja eventually.
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Re:Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:08AM (#17300162)
We had that opportunity -- the guy negotiating the treaty decided San Diego was far enough.
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Re:Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute... by s_trumpet on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:49AM (#17300840)
counterpoint: the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh (lit. Land of the Bengali).
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