Former Area

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I think this answer by reosarevok explains the current situation:

Allow historical Area entities

Not really. There’s only one moment where historical areas make sense: when there’s no human effort required for them, and they can be imported wholesale from an external source. Otherwise, we end up with our users having to divert a lot of time away from actual music data to area data, and as @drsaunde has said in the past, we’re not and will probably never be AreaBrainz (right now that would be area editors, which have a lot of requests to deal with as it is, but even if we opened it up to ev…

But I agree that aliases would be great.