From my recent trip to Italy, I started to wonder, why cities have different names in different languages and why we don't call them by the home country's nomenclature (e.g., Firenze for Florence and Roma for Rome)

Firenze or Florence: two different names for one historic city - AEF Firenze
Having grown up in the UK, this renaissance city has always been Florence to me. Whilst preparing for my year abroad, if people asked where I was headed...
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