List of German exonyms

Below is a list of German language exonyms for formerly German places and places in non-German-speaking areas of the world :

Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia
Switzerland

List of German exonyms for places in other areas

Albania

Belarus

Croatia

* For a more detailed list see : List of German exonyms for places in Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

France

  • German exonyms in the Vosges department :
  • Vosges Wasgenwald or Vogesen / Wasgau
  • German exonyms in the Meuse department :
  • German exonyms in the Franche-Comté (Freigrafschaft Burgund) region:


Greece

Hungary

Italy

Province of Aosta

Province of Belluno

Province of Gorizia

Province of Pordenone

Province of Sondrio

Between 1512 and 1797 Valtellina and Valchiavenna were under the Graubünden domination.

Province of Trento

Trentino was under Austrian administration between 1815 and 1918.

Province of Trieste

Province of Udine

Latvia

Lithuania

see List of cities and towns in East Prussia

Luxembourg

Note that this list only includes towns whose German name is significantly different from the official (mainly French) spelling. Towns that differ in the ending only (-ange/-ingen), e.g. Wormeldange=Wormeldingen are not included in this list.

Moldova

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

For further German places names see : List of German exonyms for places in Poland and List of cities and towns in East Prussia

Polish cities with German names

In addition there are several modern Polish cities that were settled with German names

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Russian cities with German names

In addition there are several Russian cities that were settled with German names
Cities renamed

Serbia

For German place names in the Vojvodina region, please see: German exonyms (Vojvodina)

Slovakia

Slovenia

For a more detailed list see: List of German exonyms for places in Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Ukraine

Ukrainian settlements with German names

In addition there are several Ukrainian settlements that were settled with German names


Ukraine

United Kingdom

Exonyms for places outside of Europe

Africa

Most place names in German East Africa continued to bear German spellings of the local names, such as Udjidji for Ujiji and Kilima-Ndscharo or Kilimandscharo for Mount Kilimanjaro. (Kigoma was known for a time as Rutschugi.) The few exceptions to the rule included

as well as German translations of some local phrases, such as Kleinaruscha for Arusha-Chini and Neu-Moschi for the settlement that is now known as Moshi. Lake Eyasi was known as the "Hohenlohe Sea", and the mission town of Sankt-Michael (St. Michael) near Kahama was formerly more important.

China

Israel

Turkey

See also

References

  1. Barnes & Nobles Revised Atlas of World History
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