>> It's as weird as some Italian names for German cities: Aquisgrana
>> for Aachen, Augusta for Augsburg, Magonza for Mainz, Monaco (di
>> Baviera) for München.
MK> Interesting that Polish names of these cities are more like Italian
MK> than German: Akwizgran, Augsburg, Moguncja, Monachium.
Because they're adaptations of the mediaeval Latin names.
The same is true of historically important Polish cities, by the way:
Varsovie, Cracovie in French, Varsavia, Cracovia in Italian. English
uses the German names instead (Warsaw, Cracow).
Juliusz
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