Whatever Happened to Tanganyika?: The Place Names that History Left Behind

158 pages. Do you still find yourself referring to Zaire or Czechoslovakia, or wondering whether it should be Moldavia or Moldova, Burma or Myanmar? Dozens of countries , cities, and counties have changed their identities over the years. Some of the names we remember from our schooldays or from news headlines just a few years a go are now gone. For example, what did happen to Tanganyika? The fascinating sto ries behind the place names include those of Affpiddle, Biafra, British Heligola nd, Ceylon, Flintshire, Friendly Isles, Islands of Samson and the Ducks, Leningr ad, Little Britain, Macedonia, Muscat, Pleasant Island, Stalingrad, Tanganyika, West Britain, Yugoslavia, and Zaire. From the major political movements (the Len ingrads and Stalingrads of the Socialist Soviet Republic) to enticing destinatio ns (Pleasant Islands, the Friendly Isles), Whatever Happened to Tanganyika? reve als how the atlas of yesteryear became the maps of today.