Re: Geographic names (Re: Composer and guitarist from Belarus.)

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From: M. Ranjit Mathews
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 08:25

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trio@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux) wrote in message news:<1evx9sp.rj92u1ehxsh4N%trio@euronet.nl>...

> I've never looked up the Ivory Coast one, but I did look up Myanmar, a
> long time ago. My recollection is that that many countries did not
> recognize the Myanmar government as legitimate and stayed with the name
> Burma. A political hot potato.

Calling Myanmar Burma might be like calling Nederland Holland or
calling the UK England. At the time the British conquered Myanmar,
Burma was only the north-central part of Myanmar and had Mandalay for
its capital. Arakan, Pegu, Tennaserim and Karen country were not part
of Burma at that time.

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