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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
image Ceylon State
Sri Lanka
Colombo
1948-1972
image Dominion of Ceylon
1972-1982
Sri Lanka
1948-1948
State of Israel
Israel
Tel Aviv
1932-1970
image Imamate of Oman
Oman
Salalah
1967-1990
image South Yemen
Yemen
Aden
1920-1921
Republic of Mountainous Armenia
Armenia
Goris
1918-1918
image 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
Łódź
1731-1914
Russian Empire
Russia
Saint Petersburg
1914-1918
Petrograd
1922-1991
Soviet Union
Moscow
1918-1918
image Ukrainian Soviet Republic
Taganrog
1917-1920
image Ukrainian People's Republic
Ukraine
Kiev
1918-1918
image West Ukrainian People's Republic
Lviv
1918-1919
Ternopil
1919-1919
Stanislaviv
1919-1934
image Ukrainian SSR
Ukraine
Kharkiv
1938-1938
Carpathian Ukraine
Uzhhorod
1938-1939
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
image Kingdom of Italy
Rome
1947-1954
image Free Territory of Trieste
Trieste
1912-1914
image Independent Albania
Albania
Vlorë
1914-1920
image Principality of Albania
Durrës
1920-1924
image Free State of Fiume
Croatia
Fiume
1898-1913
image Cretan State
Greece
Chania
1859-1916
Romanian United Principalities
Romania
Bucharest
1916-1918
Kingdom of Romania
Iași
1453-1923
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Istanbul
1852-1910
image Principality of Montenegro
Montenegro
Cetinje
1910-1918
image Kingdom of Montenegro
1918-1945
image Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Serbia
Belgrade
1945-1992
image Yugoslavia
1936-1937
image Second Spanish Republic
Spain
Valencia
1937-1939
Barcelona
1867-1918
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Austria
Vienna
1816-1919
image Neutral Moresnet
Belgium
Kelmis
1940-1944
State of France
France
Vichy
1300s-1918
image Kingdom of Bavaria
Germany
Munich
1815-1918
Duchy of Brunswick
Braunschweig
1871-1918
image German Empire
Berlin
1919-1933
Weimar Republic
Germany
1933-1945
image Nazi Germany
1945-1945
Flensburg
1949-1990
West Germany
Bonn
1949-1990
image East Germany
East Berlin
1567-1918
image Grand Duchy of Hesse
Germany
Darmstadt
1180-1918
Duchy of Oldenburg
Oldenburg
1485-1918
Kingdom of Saxony
Dresden
1643-1918
image Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe
Germany
Bückeburg
c. 1300-1918
Kingdom of Württemberg
Stuttgart
1638-1970
image British Honduras
Belize
Belize City
c. 1852-1901
Chan Santa Cruz
Mexico
Chan Santa Cruz
1855-1949
image Dominion of Newfoundland
Canada
St. John's
1942-1944
image Commonwealth of the Philippines
Philippines
Washington D.C.
1958-1962
image West Indies Federation
Trinidad and Tobago
Port of Spain
1540-1937
Republic of Honduras
Honduras
Comayagua
fl. 1908-1927
Australia
Melbourne
1885-1978
image Marshall Islands District
Marshall Islands
Jabor
1986-1989
F.S. Micronesia
Kolonia
1896-1942
image British Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Tulagi
1899-1900
image 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
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