6 sentences with 'renamed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word renamed and other words derived from it.
• « The pharaoh renamed himself Akhenaten, meaning "he who serves Aton", moved the capital to a new city he had built, plundered the temples of other gods, and even had agents chisel references to the other gods from buildings and walls. »
• « In 324 CE, Constantine founded a new capital city for the entire empire on the site of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium, at the intersection of Europe and Anatolia (he renamed it "Constantine's City", Constantinople, which today is Istanbul). »
• « So, in 622 AD, Muhammad and a group of his followers left Mecca, exiled by the powerful families who were part of Muhammad's extended clan, and travelled to the city of Yathrib, which Muhammad later renamed Medina ("the city of the Prophet"), 200 miles to the north. »
• « English King Henry VIII had separated the official English church - renamed the Church of England - from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s. »
• « Ultimately, the British fought three wars with the Dutch, defeating them each time and, among other things, seizing the Dutch port of New Amsterdam in North America (which the British quickly renamed New York). »
• « Also, new ten-day weeks were introduced, with new four-week months named for their weather rather than arbitrary historical figures (for example, the month of August, named after Augustus Caesar, was renamed "Thermidor", meaning "hot". February became "Brumaire", meaning "misty", and April became "Prairial", meaning "spring"). »