This is a list of renamed places in Romania.
Background
During the twentieth century, a number of places in Romania had their names changed for various reasons. For instance, Brașov was called Orașul Stalin by the Communist regime in order to pay homage to the Soviet leader. Some of those names were changed back to the original; Brașov regained its old name as Romania's leadership began to develop policies more independent of the Soviet Union. The reason for many Transylvanian name changes was to give a more "Romanian-sounding" name to certain settlements, since in many case the original Romanian name was too close to the Hungarian or German one, from which it was derived (usually a simple re-writing of the name according to Romanian phonetics).
Since 1921
This list enumerates the changes made from 1921 onwards.
Not included are the names of localities in the Banat, in Transylvania, and in Bukovina that were changed from Hungarian and/or German to Romanian immediately after World War I, the names of localities in Northern Transylvania that were changed back to Hungarian from 1940 to 1944, and those of localities in Greater Romania that today no longer form part of Romania, such as Southern Dobrudja and the Bugeac.
Alba 38
Arad 26
Argeș 4
Bacău 5
Bihor 19
Bistrița‑ Năsăud 42
Botoșani 1
Brașov 12
Brăila 5
Buzău 1
Caraș‑Severin 17
Călărași 2
Cluj 135 (!) Constanța 24 Covasna 2 Dâmbo- vița 1 Dolj 1 Galați 4 Giurgiu 1 Gorj 0 Harghita 12 Hunedoara 16 Ialomița 0 Iași 3 Ilfov 0 Maramureș 16 Mehe- dinți 1 Mureș 64 Neamț 0 Olt 0 Prahova 0 Satu Mare 14 Sălaj 22 Sibiu 33 Suceava 3 Teleorman 0 Timiș 22 Tulcea 12 Vaslui 1 Vâlcea 0 Vrancea 1 București
Unsorted
Axiopolis → Cernavodă
Abruttus → Abrud
Ad Mediam → Băile Herculane
Aegyssus → Tulcea
Ampelum → Zlatna
Apulum → Bălgrad → Gyulafehérvár → Alba Iulia
Arrubium → Măcin
Kronstadt → Brașov → Orașul Stalin → Brașov
Bucureșci → București (Bucharest) Callatis → Mankalya → Mangalia Carsium → Hârșova Cibinum → Hermannstadt → Nagyszeben → Sibiu Dierna → Orșova Jassy → Yaş → Iași Marosvásárhely → Târgu Mureș Napoca → Klausenburg → Kolozsvár → Cluj → Cluj-Napoca Noviodunum → Isaccea Onești → Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1965) → Onești (1996) Orasul Stalin – Braşov Varadinum (Latin) → (Nagy)várad (Magyar) → Varat (Turkish) → Großwardein (German) → Oradea Mare (Romanian) → (1925 shortening) Oradea Pelendava → Craiova Porolissum → Zalău Potaissa → Turda Temesvár → Tamışvar → Temesvár → Timișoara Tomis → Constanța Drobeta → Turnu Severin → Drobeta-Turnu Severin