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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are still people alive calling Iran Persia. It will take a while until Holland rebranding to Netherlands will take over, whole generations learned about Holland in school and will continue to use that name until the day they die.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm 28 and it was usually called Holland in school... I'm Estonian, so maybe the news just got here later, we're supposedly pretty slow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They formally changed the name in 2020, your school was up to date