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Originally Posted by Monolith
Naturally. It is a known fact.
But you don't have to be a History Doctor either to understand that they have right to choose their own name.
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It doesn't take a Doctor in International Law to understand that there are civic limits to it, if there is a conflict of such magnitude.
They "can" call themselves whatever they wish. But whether they "have a right" is debatable. What is most important, others do have a right to object, even if only for the sake of historical accuracy.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.