Russian Exonyms

	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 toponyms. Albania Austria Azerbaijan Belgium China Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Egypt Estonia France Germany Greece Iran Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Libya Mali Moldova Mongolia Morocco Netherlands North Korea Palestine Poland Portugal Romania Serbia South Korea Sweden Switzerland Syria Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan Ukraine United Kingdom United States See also List of European exonyms Names of Belarusian places in other languages * Names of Lithuanian places in other languages {{DEFAULTSORT:Russian exonyms Exonym Transliteration Lists of exonyms Exonym An endonym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Russian Language Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. Besides Russia itself, Russian is an official language in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is used widely as a lingua franca throughout Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to some extent in the Baltic states. It was the ''de facto'' language of the former Soviet Union, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 and continues to be used in public life with varying proficiency in all of the post-Soviet states. Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. It is the most spoken Slavic language, and the most spoken native language in Europe, as well as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Exonyms An endonym (from Greek language, Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a Location, geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, or speech community, linguistic community in question; it is their self-designated name for themselves, their homeland, or their language. An exonym (from Greek: , 'outer' + , 'name'; also known as xenonym) is an established, ''non-native'' name for a location, geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used only outside that particular place, group, or speech community, linguistic community. Exonyms exist not only for historical geography, historico-geographical reasons but also in consideration of difficulties when pronouncing foreign words. For instance, is the endonym for the country that is also known by the exonym ''Germany'' in English language, English, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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 subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Toponym Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of '' toponyms'' ( proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of any geographical feature, and full scope of the term also includes proper names of all cosmographical features. In a more specific sense, the term ''toponymy'' refers to an inventory of toponyms, while the discipline researching such names is referred to as ''toponymics'' or ''toponomastics''. Toponymy is a branch of onomastics, the study of proper names of all kinds. A person who studies toponymy is called ''toponymist''. Etymology The term toponymy come from grc, τόπος / , 'place', and / , 'name'. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' records ''toponymy'' (meaning "place name") first appearing in English in 1876. Since then, ''toponym'' has come to replace the term ''place-name'' in professional discourse among geographers. Topo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of European Exonyms {{Short description, none Below is a list with links to further Wikipedia-pages containing lists of exonyms of various European languages for villages, towns, and cities in Europe. * Albanian exonyms Basque exonyms Bulgarian exonyms * Catalan exonyms Croatian exonyms Czech exonyms Danish exonyms Dutch exonyms * English exonyms Estonian exonyms Finnish exonyms French exonyms Galician exonyms German exonyms German exonyms (Moselle) Greek exonyms * Hungarian exonyms * Icelandic exonyms * Irish exonyms * Italian exonyms * Latvian exonyms * Lithuanian exonyms * Luxembourgish exonyms * Maltese exonyms * Old Norse exonyms * Norwegian exonyms Polish exonyms Portuguese exonyms * Romanian exonyms Romansh exonyms Russian exonyms Rusyn exonyms (Vojvodina) Serbian exonyms Slovak exonyms Slovenian exonyms * Spanish exonyms Swedish exonyms Ukrainian exonyms Welsh exonyms See also Latin exonyms * List of English exonyms for German toponyms * List of European regions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	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, Russian) and in other languages spoken by ethnic groups which are or have been represented within Belarusian territory. Cities Minsk Region Brest Region Homiel Region Hrodna Region Mahiloŭ Region Viciebsk Region See also History of Belarus This article describes the history of Belarus. The Belarusians, Belarusian ethnos is traced at least as far in time as other East Slavs. Belarus is a successor of some Rus' people, Ruthenian principalities (Principality of Polotsk, Polotsk, Prin ... Jews in Belarus * Polish minority in Belarus References {{reflist Exonyms Places in other languages Alternative names of European places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	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 Towns Places in Vilnius Elderates Streets Squares Elderates of Kaunas Rivers See also History of Lithuania Ethnic minorities in Lithuania Jews in Lithuania Polish minority in Lithuania Russian minority in Lithuania 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, Russian) and in other languages spoken by ethnic groups which are or have been represented within Belarusian territory. Cities Min ... References {{reflist Exonyms Places in other languages Alternative names of European places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Transliteration Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus ''trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → , Cyrillic → , Greek → the digraph , Armenian → or Latin → . For instance, for the Modern Greek term "", which is usually translated as " Hellenic Republic", the usual transliteration to Latin script is , and the name for Russia in Cyrillic script, "", is usually transliterated as . Transliteration is not primarily concerned with representing the sounds of the original but rather with representing the characters, ideally accurately and unambiguously. Thus, in the Greek above example, is transliterated though it is pronounced , is transliterated though pronounced , and is transliterated , though it is pronounced (exactly like ) and is not long. Transcription, conversely, seeks to capture sound rather than spelling; "" corresponds to in the International Phonetic Alphabet. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Lists Of Exonyms A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]