German Names for Central European Towns (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article deals with the historic German language names of towns and cities in Central Europe. Many place names in Central Europe, mostly in the former German Empire and Austria-Hungary, but now located in non-German-speaking countries, have traditionally had equivalents in the German language. Many of them have been used for centuries by the German presence in the area, while some others were simply German transliterations of local names or names invented in the 19th or 20th centuries.