I always knew that places like Florence and Rome were not actually referred to in English so does anyone have any idea about when this may have started? Did this happen everywhere or just in specific languages or regions? I find it very interesting that people just change names and this causes some people to never know the places true names. Thanks for the help
Yes, for example, Babylon was known to the Canaanites as Babel, the Akkadians as Babilli and the Kassites as Karanduniash.