[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14721) City Name Aliases

["Benedict Adamson" <badamson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14721 >

William Allen Simpson wrote:
...
> OK, what about all the Greek, Illyrian, Roman, and Thracian names I've
> collected where there is no modern city?
...

That was the reason I said 'usually' in
...
> You should usually select as the canonical name the modern name as used by 
> the modern
> sovereign nation
...

If you can think of a rule for selecting a canoncial name for cities 
without a modern name, please suggest it. Perhaps '... or those most 
recent name in the case of cities that do not have a modern name'.