20th Century Former Capitals - Part 2

Have you kept track of how capitals have changed and will change over time? Only one way to find out! Part 1

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Time Period	Country	Modern Day Country	Former Capital
1959-1967	Pakistan		Rawalpindi
1815-1948	Ceylon State	Sri Lanka	Colombo
1948-1972	Dominion of Ceylon	Sri Lanka
1972-1982	Sri Lanka
1948-1948	State of Israel	Israel	Tel Aviv
1932-1970	Imamate of Oman	Oman	Salalah
1967-1990	South Yemen	Yemen	Aden
1920-1921	Republic of Mountainous Armenia	Armenia	Goris
1918-1918	Azerbaijan Democratic Republic	Azerbaijan	Ganja
1918-1993	Czechoslovakia	Czech Republic	Prague
1944-1945	Polish Committee of National Liberation	Poland	Lublin
1945-1947	Polish People's Republic	Poland	Łódź
1731-1914	Russian Empire	Russia	Saint Petersburg
1914-1918	Russian Empire		Petrograd
1922-1991	Soviet Union		Moscow
1918-1918	Ukrainian Soviet Republic		Taganrog
1917-1920	Ukrainian People's Republic	Ukraine	Kiev
1918-1918	West Ukrainian People's Republic		Lviv
1918-1919			Ternopil
1919-1919			Stanislaviv
1919-1934	Ukrainian SSR	Ukraine	Kharkiv
1938-1938	Carpathian Ukraine		Uzhhorod
1938-1939	Carpathian Ukraine		Khust
1918-1918	Republic of Finland	Finland	Vaasa
1922-1940	Republic of Lithuania	Lithuania	Kaunas
1905-1925	Norway		Christiania
1943-1945	Italian Social Republic	Italy	Salò
1871-1946	Kingdom of Italy		Rome
1947-1954	Free Territory of Trieste		Trieste
1912-1914	Independent Albania	Albania	Vlorë
1914-1920	Principality of Albania	Albania	Durrës
1920-1924	Free State of Fiume	Croatia	Fiume
1898-1913	Cretan State	Greece	Chania
1859-1916	Romanian United Principalities	Romania	Bucharest
1916-1918	Kingdom of Romania	Romania	Iași
1453-1923	Ottoman Empire	Turkey	Istanbul
1852-1910	Principality of Montenegro	Montenegro	Cetinje
1910-1918	Kingdom of Montenegro	Montenegro	Cetinje
1918-1945	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Serbia	Belgrade
1945-1992	Yugoslavia	Serbia	Belgrade
1936-1937	Second Spanish Republic	Spain	Valencia
1937-1939	Second Spanish Republic	Spain	Barcelona
1867-1918	Austro-Hungarian Empire	Austria	Vienna
1816-1919	Neutral Moresnet	Belgium	Kelmis
1940-1944	State of France	France	Vichy
1300s-1918	Kingdom of Bavaria	Germany	Munich
1815-1918	Duchy of Brunswick		Braunschweig
1871-1918	German Empire		Berlin
1919-1933	Weimar Republic	Germany
1933-1945	Nazi Germany
1945-1945	Nazi Germany		Flensburg
1949-1990	West Germany		Bonn
1949-1990	East Germany		East Berlin
1567-1918	Grand Duchy of Hesse	Germany	Darmstadt
1180-1918	Duchy of Oldenburg		Oldenburg
1485-1918	Kingdom of Saxony		Dresden
1643-1918	Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe	Germany	Bückeburg
c. 1300-1918	Kingdom of Württemberg	Germany	Stuttgart
1638-1970	British Honduras	Belize	Belize City
c. 1852-1901	Chan Santa Cruz	Mexico	Chan Santa Cruz
1855-1949	Dominion of Newfoundland	Canada	St. John's
1942-1944	Commonwealth of the Philippines	Philippines	Washington D.C.
1958-1962	West Indies Federation	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain
1540-1937	Republic of Honduras	Honduras	Comayagua
fl. 1908-1927	Australia		Melbourne
1885-1978	Marshall Islands District	Marshall Islands	Jabor
1986-1989	F.S. Micronesia		Kolonia
1896-1942	British Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands	Tulagi
1899-1900	Republic of Acre	Brazil	Cidade do Acre
1763-1960	Brazil		Rio de Janeiro
21st Century
1962-2018	Burundi		Bujumbura
1989-2005	Myanmar		Yangon
1992-2006	State Union of Serbia and Montenegro		Belgrade
1994-2006	Palau		Koror