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===Current official name=== Napoca, the pre-Roman and Roman name of ancient settlements in the area of the modern city, was added to the historical and modern name of Cluj during [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]]'s national-communist dictatorship as part of his myth-making efforts.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pippidi |first=Andrei |author-link=Andrei Pippidi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olpKYhgrS48C&pg=PA466 |title=Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes in Europe: Legacies and Lessons from the Twentieth Century |publisher=[[Berghahn Books]] |year=2006 |isbn=9781571816412 |editor-last=Jerzy W. Borejsza |page=466 |chapter=Historical Memory and Legislative Changes in Romania |access-date=14 October 2021 |editor-last2=Klaus Ziemer}}</ref> This happened in 1974, when the [[Socialist Republic of Romania|communist authorities]] made this nationalist gesture with the goal of emphasising the city's pre-Roman roots.<ref>{{Cite book |last=George W. White |title=Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=1999 |isbn=0-8476-8467-9 |editor-last=Herb |editor-first=Guntram Henrik |page=275 |chapter=Transylvania: Hungarian, Romanian, or Neither? |access-date=2021-10-15 |editor-last2=David H. Kaplan |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ikVCJQIJsNoC&pg=PA275}}</ref><ref name="National Institute of Statistics">{{Cite web |title=Cluj-Napoca. Istoric |url=http://www.clujonline.com/ro/istoric.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219101645/http://www.clujonline.com/ro/istoric.htm |archive-date=19 February 2020 |access-date=2008-03-14 |publisher=Clujonline.com |language=ro}}</ref> The full name of "Cluj-Napoca" is rarely used outside of official contexts.<ref>Brubaker et al. 2006, p.xxi</ref>
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