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exonyms An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
of various European languages for
village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
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town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...
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cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
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Catalan exonyms The following is a list of Catalan exonyms, that is to say, names for places out of Catalan speaking areas which are used in the Catalan language. Albania Algeria Austria Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Canada ...
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English exonyms An English exonym is a name in the English language for a place (a toponym), or occasionally other terms, which does not follow the local usage (the endonym). Exonyms and endonyms are features of all languages and other languages may have their own ...
* Estonian exonyms *
Finnish exonyms Below is a list of Finnish language exonyms for places in non-Finnish-speaking areas: Note that the Finnish language inflects place names where English use prepositions like ''in'' and ''to''. These variants can affect any place name and are inflec ...
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French exonyms Below is a list of French language exonyms for places in non-French-speaking areas: Albania Algeria Andorra Argentina Armenia Austria Australia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus ''le Bélarus'', French name for Belarus crea ...
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Galician exonyms Below is a list of Galician language exonyms for places in non-Galician-speaking areas : Austria * Wien – Viena * Salzburg – Salsburgo Armenia * Yerevan – Iereván Azerbaijan (Acerbaixán) * Baku – Bakú Belarus (Bielorrusia) ...
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German exonyms Below is a list of German language exonyms for formerly German places and other places in non-German-speaking areas of the world. Archaic names are in ''italics''. Algeria Belarus Belgium * List of German exonyms for places in Belgium ...
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Greek exonyms Below is a list of modern-day Greek language exonyms for mostly European places outside of Greece and Cyprus. Place names that are not mentioned are generally referred to in Greek by their respective names in their native languages, or with the cl ...
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Hungarian exonyms Below is a list of Hungarian language exonyms for places outside of Hungary. It excludes transliterations with the same pronunciation as the endonym, and place names spelled the same. Albania Austria ''For a list of Hungarian place names in the ...
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Icelandic exonyms The following is a list of Icelandic exonyms, that is to say names for places in Icelandic that have been adapted to Icelandic spelling rules, translated into Icelandic, or Old Norse exonyms surviving in Icelandic. Commonly pronunciation is close ...
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Irish exonyms This is list of Irish language exonyms for places outside Ireland. The tables contain both exonym and endonym of places around the world. The exonyms in Irish and the endonyms in their regional language. Algeria Belgium Bosnia and Herze ...
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Italian exonyms ''Below is list of Italian language exonyms for places in non-Italian-speaking areas of the world'' Albania Algeria Australia Austria Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Canada Chile China ...
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Latvian exonyms ''Below is list of Latvian language exonyms for places in non-Latvian-speaking places:'' Albania Austria Belarus Belgium Denmark Estonia France Germany Greece Italy Lithuania Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Switzerl ...
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Lithuanian exonyms This is a list of Lithuanian language exonyms for places outside the Republic of Lithuania. Albania Austria Belarus Belgium Denmark Estonia France Italy Latvia Netherlands Moldova Poland Portugal Romania Russia Most ...
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Luxembourgish exonyms The following is a list of Luxembourgish exonyms, that is to say Luxembourgish-language names for places that do not speak Luxembourgish. Belgium France Germany Greece Italy See also *List of European exonyms {{Short description, n ...
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Maltese exonyms Below is list of Maltese exonyms places that do not use Maltese. Albania Algeria Austria Belgium China Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Egypt France Germany Greece Israel and West Bank Italy Lebanon Libya Netherlands ...
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Old Norse exonyms The Norse people traveled abroad as Vikings and Varangians. As such, they often named the locations and peoples they visited with Old Norse words unrelated to the local endonyms. Some of these names have been acquired from sagas, runestones or ...
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Norwegian exonyms As a general rule, modern Norwegian does not use exonyms for names with endonyms in Latin script. Historically, several Danish/German exonyms have been in use, due to the Danish roots of the Bokmål variety of Norwegian, but these exonyms should b ...
* Polish exonyms *
Portuguese exonyms Below is a list of Portuguese language exonyms for places in non-Portuguese-speaking areas. Some of them are used exclusively in European Portuguese (marked E) while others appear just in Brazilian Portuguese (marked B). Some of these terms are ...
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Romanian exonyms Below is list of exonyms of Romanian language, or exonym-words for places outside Romania and Republic of Moldova. Most of them shall keep the original writing, unless not using Latin alphabet: Albania * *Berat Vâlea *Boboshticë Bubușița ...
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Russian exonyms Below is a list of Russian language exonyms for places, mainly in Europe. Note that this list only includes names that are significantly different from the local toponym, some exonyms are marked as historical, modern exonyms may match the topo ...
* Rusyn exonyms (Vojvodina) * Serbian exonyms * Slovak exonyms * Slovenian exonyms * Spanish exonyms * Swedish exonyms * Ukrainian exonyms * Welsh exonyms


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Latin exonyms Below is list of Latin exonyms for places outside of the core of the Roman empire during the time Latin was in common use: Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Egypt France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland ...
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List of English exonyms for German toponyms This list is a compilation of German toponyms (i.e., names of cities, regions, rivers, mountains and other geographical features situated in a German-speaking area) that have traditional English-language exonyms. Usage notes: * While in the case o ...
* List of European regions with alternative names *
List of European rivers with alternative names All or almost all rivers in Europe have alternative names in different languages. Some rivers have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article provides known alternative names for all major European rivers. It also inc ...
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List of French exonyms for Dutch toponyms This list of French exonyms for Dutch toponyms shows the French names of cities and villages in the Netherlands (french: les Pays-Bas) used by the French and ''francophones'' living outside France. Provinces Cities See also *List of French e ...
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List of French exonyms for German toponyms This list shows the French exonyms for German toponyms. french: l'Allemagne {{compact ToC, side=yes, top=yes, num=no A *Aachen Aix-la-Chapelle *Aargau Argovie *Aschaffenburg Aschaffenbourg *Augsburg Augsbourg B *Bad Iburg Ibourg *Bad Kreuznach Cr ...
* List of French exonyms for Italian toponyms *
List of Latin place names in Continental Europe This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references. As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on schol ...
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List of European rivers with alternative names All or almost all rivers in Europe have alternative names in different languages. Some rivers have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article provides known alternative names for all major European rivers. It also inc ...
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List of traditional Greek place names This is a list of Greek place names as they exist in the Greek language. *Places involved in the history of Greek culture, including: **Historic Greek regions, including: ***Ancient Greece, including colonies and contacted peoples ***Hellenistic ...
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Names of Belarusian places in other languages This page lists some names of places in Belarus, as they are called in two of the official languages (Belarusian language, Belarusian, Russian language, Russian) and in other languages spoken by ethnic groups which are or have been represented with ...
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Names of European cities in different languages Many cities in Europe have different names in different languages. Some cities have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known different names for all major cities that are geographically or ...
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Names of Lithuanian places in other languages This page lists some names of places in Lithuania, as they are called in Lithuanian, and as they are called or were formerly called in other languages spoken by ethnic groups. Which are or have been represented within Lithuanian territory. Cities ...


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Exonyms in Central and Eastern Europe (a .doc file)
Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...
Exonyms An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
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