Uh

St. Petersburg

Petrograd

Peter's burg

Simple as that

🅱etersburg

Or Leningrad back during the Soviet times, obviously meaning City of Lenin.

oh no

Renames

How about... Sevastopol.

Grad actually means "castle" or building area

We just have a tradition of calling cities as "castles"

But we still use "place" as town

Like west slavs do

The south slavs use grad as both castle and city

Sevastopol by the apperance is totally greek

You see the pol

Right.

/sevastopol/

I don't know the polis of sevas?

Next, Warsaw.

Varšava

Female city name

šava is a suffix

var is like "fortification" or like defence tower

Var(nost) means protection

you see vars throughout the balkans and in hungary

Like Varaždin and Bijelovar and other stuff

Damn, never knew Warsaw meant that much.

Every city has some meaning

Its slovene tradition

Every village is named either by saint, church, lake, pond, the market, the things you do there, people

anything

Oh varašava is slovenian, my bad

Warszawa is polish

But thats just pronouncation

What about Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capitol?

v vs w

Ok lemme clear it first

The lj and nj you see

Its made up