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Jewish Mayor Lobbies to Change City's Arab Name |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: Amelia Thomas |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,158 Words, 7,063 Characters |
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Istanbul was Constantinople, and even old New York was once New Amsterdam, as the song famously relates. Indeed, many cities across the globe have changed name at least once. St. Petersburg, Mumbai, and Beijing have all had previous incarnations, as have a number of countries, including Myanmar, Iran and Israel.
But now, in central Israel, one such potential name change is stirring up controversy; it threatens to wipe out a name that was granted not in honor of a modern-historical dictatorship, colonization, or battle, but one that has been in place for well over 1,000 years.
The ninth-century Arab geographer, Ya'qubi, relates that the city of Ramle was founded in A.D. 716 by the Caliph Sulaiman Ibn Abdel Malik, a military ruler whose territory spanned Europe and Asia, and who made...
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... market worker and born-and-bred Raml-ian. "We're proud of our town. Even if it did change, the change wouldn't last. No one would actually use the new name after the first few weeks."
He is equally assertive on the question of Ramle's identity; "why should we change it just for other people? We like it here, and we don't care what anyone else thinks!"
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