Israel is big on cities with millions of scary-spelled names. There's one that is STILL called three things:

Acre
Akko
Akka

And historically it was Aak, Ake, Antiochia Ptolemais, Ptolemais, and who knows what else.

WHY?!?!

Well...it's 5000 years old and it's been possessed by the Greeks, the Romans, the Turks (Ottoman Empire), the English, the Persians, the French, the Arabs, the Jews...I suppose it shouldn't be any big surprise. But even on modern maps and signs, the name varies.