History Main / Egopolis

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->'''Kim''': Somebody loves herself a liiiittle too much.
->--''KimPossible'', "A Sitch In Time"

** One could argue he earned that right, having single-handedly lead the conquest what was then the known-world, the known unknown world, and much of the unknown unknown world. The generals... eh... less so.

* The Soviet cites St. Petersburg (named by Peter The Great for the saint that was his namesake), aka Petrograd (renamed during WWI because it sounded too German), aka Leningrad (after Lenin), aka St. Petersburg again; and Stalingrad (now Volgograd). There's a move to rename it back to Stalingrad, not in honour of Stalin but in honour of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad famous victory over Germany]].

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* Averted with Kamina City from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. In the eyes of the cast ''and'' the audience, Kamina more than won all the bragging rights to the city name, and it was also [[spoiler:named posthumously]].
* TowerOfDruaga's second season gives us "Meltland".
* Leopard of ''SoraWoKakeruShoujo'', being big enough to contain a city structure within him, takes pride in his city by, for example, naming all the animal species within him after himself. ''Crocodilius leopardus'', anyone?
* KirbyOfTheStars King Dedede has his name and face carved all over Pupu village, from TV channels to its money almost everything has Dedede's face in it.
* Satan City in ''DragonBallZ'' is named after [[FakeUltimateHero Mr. Satan]] [[BlatantLies following his courageous defeat of Cell]]. Not that he's actually in charge, [[{{Understatement}} but he does have a large influence]].
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*** [[DumbMuscle Strong Mad]], being rather dim, calls his "COUNTRY".

** And let's not forget all the places named after her beloved Prince Consort Albert, though most of those came after his death. It's often joked that she would have changed the name of England to Alberta if she thought for one second she could get away with it.
* Beijing was originally named Khanbaliq, "city of the Khan", by Kublai Khan, a descendent of Genghis Khan.

* There have been quite a few places named for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito Josip Broz Tito]]; [[TheOtherWiki The Other Wiki]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Josip_Broz_Tito has a list]]. Notably, however, every city named for him in the Yugoslav era got renamed to something else after the country broke up.

* Inverted with Calgary (formerly Fort Brisebois). Lieutenant-Colonel [=MacLeod=] named it after Captain Brisebois. When Brisebois married a Métis woman, [=MacLeod=] changed it, not wanting the place to be named after a miscegenist.

* The Soviet cites St. Petersburg (named by Peter The Great for the saint that was his namesake), aka Petrograd (renamed during WWI because it sounded too German), aka Leningrad (after Lenin), aka St. Petersburg again; and Stalingrad (now Volgograd). There's a move to rename it back to Stalingrad, not in honour of Stalin but in honour of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad famous victory over the Nazis]].

** The Battles Of Stalingrad and Leningrad in World War II were so vicious and bloody at least in part because of Stalin's Egopolis tendencies; as well as the tactical advantages they offered the Nazis (near-completely unfettered access to the oilfields of the Caucasus, in the case of Stalingrad), it would be a great propaganda coup for the Nazis (and subsequent blow to the Soviets) for the cities named after their glorious leader and the founder of their glorious worker's paradise both to fall. Stalin, of course, was not going to let that shit go unopposed. Result? Eighteen-odd months of vicious street-fighting so determined that every individual room in every house would be bitterly contested in the former, and a protracted siege that resulted in daily bombardments and the citizenry eating their own dead in the latter.

* Various cities were named after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, the cities of Cincinnato, Italy; Cincinnatus, New York; and the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, which was named after a society that was named after Cincinnatus.

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* The nearby French city of Charleville-Mézières was created by Charles Gonzague, duke of a whole load of places, to serve as the capital of his brand-new principality of Arches.

* The Belgian city of Charleroi (Charles-king) is named after the famously imbred Charles II of Spain, ruler of the Spanish Low Countries when the initial fortress was constructed. The celebrated king was inglorious enough that most of the locals are persuaded the city takes its names from either or both of the much more prestigious Charlemagne and Charles V von Habsburg, both born and raised in the Low Countries.

* The Belgian city of Charleroi (Charles-king) is named after the famously imbred Charles II of Spain, ruler of the Spanish Low Countries when the initial fortress was constructed. The celebrated king was inglorious enough that most of the locals are persuaded the city takes its names from either or both of the much more prestigious Charlemagne et Charles V von Habsburg, both born and raised in the Low Countries.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_Economic_City King Abdullah Economic City]], Saudi Arabia.

* KirbyOfTheStars King Dedede has his name and face carved all over Pupu village, from tv channels to its money almost everything has Dedede's face in it.

* About half the geographic locations in New South Wales and Tasmania were named after NSW Governer Lachlan Macquarie, mostly by Macquarie himself.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_Economic_City King Abdullah Economic City]], Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia could count too, as it literally means Saud's (as in the ruling dynasty) Arabia. It's like if the United Kingdom was called Winsdor's Britain.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_Economic_City King Abdullah Economic City]], Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia could count too, as it literally means Saud's (as in Ibn Saud, the founder of the modern country) Arabia. It's like if the United States was called Washington's America.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_Economic_City King Abdullah Economic City]], Saudi Arabia.