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The history and etymology of place names.
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Is it true that medieval villages didn't have names?
Some villages had histories and thus names going back to Ancient Roman times. A case in point is Matreium in the Austrian Alps, a small village then and now. So the statement that medieval villages di …
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How did it happen that countries and cities got different names in different languages?
This is a wide-ranging question that perhaps permits many answers, e.g. of both linguistic and political kinds.
Sometimes renaming a town was a way of exerting a (outside) ruler's power: e.g. what wa …
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