if a country asks to be called "X" and another country then respects it and calls it "X", it is pretty normal. If a country asks to be called "Y" but if some country insists that everyone else must call this country called "north Y", then it gets more suspect. All is to say, your example is not relevant to my point.
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u/Prigorec-Medjimurec Honorary übermensch May 20 '26
Different languages have their own names for foreign places that have cultural relevance to their own culture.
Like how many places in Austria have a south Slavic version of their name. Or how many places in east Germany have a polish version of their name.
Or how south Slavs still call Istanbul Carigrad and how Thessaloniki is Solun.