City (after the late leader of North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh) to symbolize the north's victory in the war. Despite the official name change, however, many older Americans (especially those who fought in the Vietnam War) still refer to the city as Saigon. Even many Vietnamese still refer to the city as Saigon. The name of the river, however, remains unchanged, the Saigon River. Changes resulting from splits and mergers Czechoslovakia got its name from the agglomeration of the Czech and Slovak peoples in 1918. It peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic in 1993. Yugoslavia ("Land of the South Slavs") was originally Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, created by joining Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Montenegro and parts of Austro-Hungarian Empire inhabited by South Slavs (today comprising Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Vojvodina (i.e. the Northern part of modern Serbia)) . It became Yugoslavia in 1929. It subsequently split into the modern states of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, North Macedonia and Montenegro between 1991 and 2006. Serbia's autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija unilaterally declared its independence in 2008. The Gambia and Senegal became one as Senegambia Confederation 1982–1989 Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined to become Tanzania Egypt and Syria were briefly joined as the United Arab Republic Malaya merged with the northern Borneo territories of Sabah and Sarawak to become Malaysia in 1963. Various places split by compass directions, such as North and South Dakota, West Virginia and Virginia, North and South Korea, East and West Germany, etc. South Yemen was previously known as the Aden Protectorate and by other names. Some of these were subsequently unified, such as Germany and Yemen. List of significant name changes This is a list of internationally important or significant renamings. Countries Terra de Santa Cruz → Brazil (1530) Temasik → Singapore (1819) New Granada → Colombia (1819) New Spain → Mexico (1821) Upper Peru → Bolivia (1825) Republic of the Seven United Netherlands → Batavian Republic (1795) → Batavian Commonwealth (1801) → Kingdom of Holland (1806) → Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands (1813) → United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815) → Kingdom of the Netherlands (1830) Colombia → New Granada (1831) → Colombia (1863) Dahomey → French Dahomey (1894) Spanish East Indies → Philippines (1898) Eastern Bengal and Assam (1905) → East Bengal (1947) German Southwest Africa → Southwest Africa (1915) Kingdom of Great