Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 2, 2003, 11:27 |
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--- Andreas Johansson skrzypszy:
> > For the same reason, the West-Ukrainian city of L'viv is almost always
> > called "L'vov" in older atlases.
>
> In my older atlases, it's called "Lemberg" ...
Lemberg is the German name, and it was the official name of the city during the
19th century, when Galicia was part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. German
still tends to use old German names rather than native ones, albeit to a
varying extent:
Lvov/Lviv > Lemberg
Milano > Mailand
Ljubljana > Laibach
Jelenia Góra > Hirschberg
Wroclaw > Breslau
Gdansk > Danzig
Brasov > Kronstadt
etc.
Jan
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