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Originally Posted by Ryan Coke
I thought about this while in Italy. I think we can handle saying Italia, and Roma (Rome) and Firenze (Florence) and Venizia (Venice). Why on earth do we need to 'englishize' it? Calgary is Calgary no matter what your native tongue is, just as New York is not Nouveau York or Mesa Arizona isn't Table Arizona.
Just seems stupid to me.
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French does it too.
The USA in French is États-Unis d'Amérique.
I know part of it is just history. For example, Njemačka in Croatian is in reference to a specific Germanic tribe that had influence in the region of Germany during the early middle ages.