Name?
Probably something simple, like Rome<=>Ermor.
Israel<=>Sar'el/Sar Elad/Aelsar/Aersal/Aerlas/Elar Sad, maybe Kna'an<=>Kan/Kannan?
Or maybe something symbolic?
Atika(=ancient) / Kduma(=ancient) / Kadmun(=ancient
) ?
And on the issue of sprites, I don't know how you plan on doing them (:P) but no matter what, I think you should make them four times the size they are going to be in Dom2, because it is evident that Dom3 units will be x4 the size dom2 units are, so we should keep high quality originals for when Dom3 comes out and use a rezoomed version for Dom2. (x4 = Widthx2 Heightx2)