German for instance, uses Peking and Turin, too. I don't know about Peking, but Turin is actually the name in the local dialect. Torino is proper Italian. [1]

German for instance, uses Peking and Turin, too. I don't know about Peking, but Turin is actually the name in the local dialect. Torino is proper Italian. [1] My guess is that Turin is the older name which got established in the English and German language and it was later changed to the proper Italian name Torino. [1] Both mean "bull" in English, there was something about bull (taur...) already in the name when it was founded by the romans.