List of renamed places in Romania

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