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India: Faizabad renamed Ayodhya

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November 23, 2018

In India, the city of Faizabad was named in the sixteenth century by its Muslim Iranian founders. Now it is being renamed Ayodhya by the Hindu government. This comes despite the fact that just a few kilometers away, a city named Ayodhya already exists.