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Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Friday, May 2, 2003, 11:27
 --- 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 ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer

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