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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
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
Forced into slovenian
via "yugoslav unification"
But thats how the government still is.
Fucking yugophiles
those like softening pronouncations, the slovenes don't have
Only the serbs and croats