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The history and etymology of place names.

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Why are Ukranian town and city names so (relatively) repetitive?

An analysis of Open Street Map confirms your suspicion - Ivanivka is indeed a disproportionately popular name in Ukraine. In this dataset, it's edged out only by Oktyabrskiy in Russia (named, naturall …
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