Comment on Washington DC to be renamed to St Donaldsburg

Microw@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought St. Petersburg was named for the Apostle Saint Peter?

  Pyotr founded the city but to my knowledge didn’t name it after himself nor was he canonized as a Saint.

  source

  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For a while it was Leningrad.

    source

    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But that’s an entirely different story

      source