Place-Name Concordance
The accepted English version of a place-name is used (except where noted)
or, for smaller places where an English-equivalent name is lacking, another
generally-accepted western-language name.
Normally, the place-name used is the one contemporaneous with the event.
For instance, in 1871 the French town of Soultz-sous-Forêts became the
German town of Sulz-unterm-Wald, and so forth in 1919, 1940, and 1945.
Remember to use lowercase letters only. To input an accented character,
press and hold the Alt key, enter the 4-digit code on the numeric pad,
and release the Alt key.
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| bas-rhin |
lower rhine |
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| bayern |
bavaria |
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| cassel |
cassel or kassel |
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| czarne |
hammerstein |
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| elsass |
alsace |
not elsaß |
| furth or fuerth |
fürth |
ü = Alt+0252 |
| goersdorf |
gœrsdorf |
œ = Alt+0156 |
| haut-rhin |
upper rhine |
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| hessen |
hesse |
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| kassel |
cassel or kassel |
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| kalisz |
kalisch |
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| kaunas |
kovno |
alternate name |
| klingenmunster |
klingenmünster |
ü = Alt+0252 |
| klingenmuenster |
klingenmünster |
ü = Alt+0252 |
| ksiaz wikp. |
xions |
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| pila |
schneidemühl |
ü = Alt+0252 |
| pleszew |
pleschen |
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| poznan |
posen |
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| preussen |
prussia |
not preußen |
| rheinland |
rhineland |
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| scania or skane |
skåne |
å = Alt+0229 |
| schneidemuhl |
schneidemühl |
ü = Alt+0252 |
| schneidemuehl |
schneidemühl |
ü = Alt+0252 |
| slobodka |
vilijampole |
alternate name |
| soultz-sous-forets |
soultz or sulz |
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| soultz-sous-forêts |
soultz or sulz |
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| strasbourg |
strasbourg or strassburg |
not straßburg |
| strassburg |
strasbourg or strassburg |
not straßburg |
| sulz-unterm-wald |
soultz or sulz |
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| vilnius |
vilna |
alternate name |
| weissenburg |
wissembourg |
not weißenburg |
| westpreussen |
west prussia |
not westpreußen |
| wien |
vienna |
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