Timeline for When countries combine, how do they pick a new name?
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| Mar 23, 2023 at 20:08 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | If you could first say how that process might matter, that explanation might well give you the Answer. If not, that should speak for itself. Can you say what your built countries are called, and why they want to merge? Most obviously, 'they' might 'want' to merge because one conquered the other, or through dynastic marriage. If Greengagia conquers Bluezonium, why not simply expand Greengagia on the map, or change to Greater Greengagia? For marriage, why not Yellovina? | |
| Mar 22, 2023 at 21:46 | answer | added | Drew R | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 22, 2023 at 19:58 | comment | added | Flydog57 | Or Canada (from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Canada East (formerly Lower Canada, basically Quebec) and Canada West (formerly Upper Canada, basically what is now Ontario)). | |
| Mar 22, 2023 at 17:13 | comment | added | Cris Luengo | There was also Czechoslovakia (Czechia + Slovakia). | |
| Mar 22, 2023 at 0:01 | answer | added | Roger | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 21:16 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | I'm voting to leave open on the basis of the accepted answer - which justifies the question as answerable with facts. (From review.) | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 21:14 | comment | added | AlexP | @nigel222: And us pesky foreigners, in our ignorance, shamelessly call those countries "England" and "America". | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 18:31 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 21, 2023 at 16:58 | comment | added | nigel222 | Well, here in the real world we have "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and for that matter, the "United States of America". And then folks find a way to shorten the official descriptive name. the UK ("Yookay") and the USA "YooEssAy". | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 14:39 | answer | added | user3084093 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 14:14 | comment | added | Boba Fit | Just don't use an on-line opinion poll. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface | |
| S Mar 21, 2023 at 11:24 | history | suggested | JRE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2023 at 10:50 | comment | added | AlexP | @Neinstein: There has never been a Habsburg Empire. There was a Habsburg Monarchy, which controlled some lands which were part of the Holy Roman Empire and then the Austrian Empire, and some lands which were not part of the Empire. Buda and Pest have never been part of the HRE or of the Austrian Empire; the only empire they were ever part of was the Ottoman Empire. The only Habsburg monarch who actually tried to govern Hungary as an integral part of a unified monarchy was Joseph II, and that lasted for all of 10 years and did not end well. | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 6:20 | comment | added | Neinstein | @AlexP and before the age of the Dualism (Austria-Hungary as you describe it), after what was left from the Kingdom of Hungary after the Turkish invasion merged into the Habsburg-controlled territory via a continuous personal union and formed a much more integrated part of the whole formation, the empire was simply known as Habsburg Empire. | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 20:36 | answer | added | Klaws | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 19:57 | vote | accept | E Tam | ||
| Mar 20, 2023 at 16:01 | comment | added | pipe | @AlexP I admit, I am no true Scotsman. I will consult the One True™ definition of "country" next time a question about a fictional story comes up. | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 13:42 | comment | added | Bergi | "The countries I can name that resulted from two or more smaller countries combining, e.g. Germany" - look closer into the parts of Germany (or formerly Prussia). There is (or was) Rhineland-Palatine, Hessen-Nassau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Halle-Merseburg, Jülich-Kleve-Berg, Schaumburg-Lippe, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Baden-Württemberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen and probably a lot more. | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 12:53 | comment | added | AlexP | @pipe: Austria-Hungary was not a country; it was a loose confederation consisting of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary. Compared to Austria-Hungary, the European Union is a centralized state. Bosnia, OK, it was sort-of a well-defined province in the Ottoman Empire and then in the Austrian Empire; but Herzegovina never had any kind of independent of even autonomous existence, as it has always been a purely geographical designation, and a very fuzzy one. | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 12:42 | comment | added | pipe | "I could not think of a historical example", Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 5:05 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 19, 2023 at 23:56 | answer | added | AlexP | timeline score: 49 | |
| Mar 19, 2023 at 22:37 | answer | added | Tom | timeline score: 16 | |
| Mar 19, 2023 at 21:19 | answer | added | TheDemonLord | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 19, 2023 at 21:18 | comment | added | JBH | You might also check out this list of proposed national/state mergers and this Quora question. | |
| Mar 19, 2023 at 21:13 | comment | added | JBH | This is the first name-related question that might meet our rules in a long time. However, to set an expectation, I suspect that there isn't a single, predictable process ... which might make the question story-based. I'm hoping the number of historically verifiable options are finite enough to make good answers. BTW, an example of stringing names together would be the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but you might want to check out this History.SE Q. | |
| Mar 19, 2023 at 21:11 | history | edited | JBH |
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| Mar 19, 2023 at 21:01 | history | asked | E Tam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |