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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Imperial Dave on Aug 29, 2025, 08:22 PM

Title: 40 cities that had different names in rhe medieval.period
Post by: Imperial Dave on Aug 29, 2025, 08:22 PM
40 Cities That Had Different Names in Medieval Times - Medievalists.net https://share.google/Lk908WaCSFsRDLBon
Title: Re: 40 cities that had different names in rhe medieval.period
Post by: Duncan Head on Aug 30, 2025, 11:00 AM
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/08/cities-different-names-medieval/ is a better link.
Title: Re: 40 cities that had different names in rhe medieval.period
Post by: Erpingham on Aug 30, 2025, 12:11 PM
A lot of these seem to be adoption of a existing alternative name in a different language as speakers of that language became politically dominant. Others just a shift of English names for places.  I don't think the Italians ever called Livorno Leghorn, for example, or Germans Köln Cologne.
Title: Re: 40 cities that had different names in rhe medieval.period
Post by: Cantabrigian on Aug 30, 2025, 12:39 PM
Quote from: Erpingham on Aug 30, 2025, 12:11 PMor Germans Köln Cologne.

Well, I believe that Köln is a corrupted version of the Latin "Colonia" so perhaps the English is, for once, a little closer to the original.