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Vilnius - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) City situated in Southeastern Lithuania (54°41" north latitude and 25°17" east longitude) at the confluence of the River Vilnelė and the River Neris. The city and its surroundings were proclaimed Central Lithuania and on February 20, 1922 the local parliament passed the Unification Act and the city was incorporated into Poland as the capital of the Wilno Voivodship. The main sights of the city are the Gediminas Castle and the Cathedral Square, symbols of the capital. encyclopedia.learnthis.info /v/vi/vilnius.html   (1996 words)

wikien.info: Main_Page City situated in Southeastern Lithuania (54°41" north latitude and 25°17" east longitude) at the confluence of the River Vilnia (Vilnelė) and the River Neris. This non-central location can be attributed to the changing shape of the nation's borders throughout past centuries; Vilnius was once not only culturally, but geographically the center of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and was also a major city of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The city was first mentioned in written sources by the new name Vilnius in 1323. www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Vilna   (2155 words)

Vilnius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) This non-central location can be attributed to the changing shape of the nation's borders throughout past centuries; Vilnius was once not only culturally, but geographically the center of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and was also one of the major cities of the region. City's growth lost its momentum for many years, yet the number of inhabitants quickly recovered and by the beginning of the 19th century the city was the third largest city in Eastern Europe. The city and its surroundings were proclaimed a separate state of Central Lithuania (Litwa Srodkowa) and, after free parliamentary elections, in a result of the decision of Central Lithuanian Parliament, on February 20 1922 the whole area was made a part of Poland, with Wilno as the capital of the Wilno Voivodship. www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=Vilnius   (2598 words)

wikien.info: Main_Page It is the capital city of the L'viv region and is a main cultural centre of Ukraine. However, the city itself was founded in the 13th century by King Danylo of the Ruthenian duchy of Halych-Volynia, and named in honor of his son, Lev. The city was also granted with a right to delegate MPs to the parliament in Vienna, which made many prominent cultural and political leaders move to the city, which served as a meeting place of Ukrainian, Polish, Jewish and German cultures. www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Lvov   (2920 words)

Lviv   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) It is the capital city of the Lviv Oblast (province) and is a main cultural centre of Ukraine. The city's fortifications were strengthened and Lwów became one of the most important fortresses guarding the Commonwealth from the south-east. Also the Polish population of the city was subject to harsh policies, which resulted in a number of mass executions both in the city and in the Janów camp. www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Lviv   (3231 words)

KIEV ALTERNATE GENIE SEARCH ENGINE, INC Like many other large cities of the former Soviet_Union, it is a mix of the old and the new, seen in everything from the buildings to the stores to the people themselves. Historically, Kiev is one of the most ancient and important cities of the region, the center of the Rus' civilization, survivor of numerous wars, purges, and genocides. With the exact time of city foundation being hard to determine, May 1982 was chosen to celebrate the city's 1,500th anniversary. www.agseinc.com /Kiev   (1978 words)

Names of European cities in different languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article also lists cities of Turkey, Cyprus, and all the republics of the former Soviet Union. Cities are listed alphabetically by their current best-known name in English. Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents may be listed, to provide an answer to the question "What is that name in..."?. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cities_alternative_names   (6052 words)

Aix-la-Chapelle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) Aachen (French Aix-la-Chapelle) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands, 65 km to the west of Cologne, and the westernmost city in Germany, at 50°46′ N 6°6′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=50_46_N_6_6_E_). During the Middle Ages Aachen was one of the largest cities of the empire. Though, the city became the site of several important congresses and peace treaties: the first congress of Aachen (often referred to as congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in english) in 1668, leading to the First Treaty of Aachen in the same year which ended the War of Devolution. www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=Aix-la-Chapelle   (795 words)

Kraków biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) This historic city is situated on the Vistula (Wisła) River at the foot of Wawel Hill in the southerly region of Little Poland (Małopolska). Kraków's importance began to decline, accelerated by the pillaging of the city during the Swedish invasion, and an outbreak of plague that left 20,000 of the city's residents dead. The city again became the focus of a struggle for national sovereignty in 1846, during the Kraków Uprising. krakow.biography.ms   (2285 words)

Freising   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) Freising (List of European cities with alternative names) is a city in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the district Freising. The city is located north of Munich at the Isar river, near the Franz Josef Strauß International Airport. The saddled bear is still the symbol of the city, displayed in the coat of arms, though the seat of the diocese was moved to Munich in 1821. www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Freising.htm   (401 words)

Lviv - Art History Online Reference and Guide L'viv (Lviv.ogg in Ukrainian; Львов, Lvov in Russian; Lwow.ogg in Polish; Leopolis in Latin; see also cities' alternative names) is a city in western Ukraine with 830,000 inhabitants (an additional 200,000 commute daily from suburbs). In the following centuries, the city's population grew rapidly and soon Lwów became a multi-ethnic and muli-religious city and an important centre of culture, science and trade. As the Red Army wasnearing the city in 1944, on July 23 the local commander of the Home Army ordered all his forces to commence the Operation Tempest. www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Lviv   (3084 words)

Thousands of PLACE NAMES for your dog, horse, cat, pet or child from Chinaroad Lowchens of Australia -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) Names of over 70,000 countries, states, counties, departments, provinces, cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rivers, seas and other places of the world. The name of a province is derived from its capital city The names of all counties in the People’s Republic of China that are in Tibetan autonomous areas or, in eastern Qinghai, areas which have a significant Tibetan population. www.lowchensaustralia.com /names/placenames.htm   (1781 words)

alternative cities - Want to know more about alternative cities?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) Clean Cities is part of the Office of Energy Efficiency and... Vehicles powered by domestically produced, clean alternative fuels and other energy efficient, advanced technology vehicles can help reduce our dependence on... The Twin Cities Alternative Shows List A calendar of upcoming alternative music shows in the Twin Cities area What is the Twin... ardwinproducts.com /find/alternative-cities.aspx   (165 words)

KIEV FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) The city is adjoined by the mouth of the Desna_River and the Kyivs'ke_reservoir in the north, and the Kanivs'ke_reservoir in the south. It also reflects the Old East Slavic (the language of the ancestors of modern Ukrainians and Russians) spelling of the name (Къɪѥвъ). Most of the world media continues to use Kiev to this day as the name that has by now established itself in English. www.bellabuds.com /Kiev   (1993 words)

Kiev Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) , Kiev; also spelled Kyiv (see also Cities' alternative names), is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river. Historically, Kiev is one of the most ancient and important cities of the region, the center of the Rus' civilization, survivor of numerous wars, purges,and genocides. Administratively, Kiev is subdivided into the following raions (districts), which are have their own units of local government with jurisdiction over a limit scope of affairs. www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Kiev   (2353 words)

The page cannot be found   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly. Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_european_cities_w...   (121 words)

List of European cities with alternative names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) Most cities in Europe have alternative names in different languages. This article attempts to give all known alternative names for all major European cities. Ordzhonikidze (former name 1932-1944 and 1954-1990), Dzaudzhikau (former name 1944-1954) www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_european_cities_with_alternative_names.html   (3770 words)

alternative names - Want to know more about alternative names?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) Structural Insulated Panel Systems are a superior alternative to conventional building materials such as lumber or bricks and offers many benefits. Alternative names Create the local-host-names file, touch /etc/mail/local-host-names and add the following line... What to expect at your health care provider's office Illustrations Gynecomastia Alternative names Return to top Breast development in a male Definition Return to top... www.unang.com /find/Alternative-Names.aspx   (177 words)

Krakow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) ['krakuf], in full Royal Capital City of Kraków; Polish: Królewskie Stołeczne Miasto Kraków, see also Cities alternative names; in Hungarian Krakkó) is one of the oldest and largest cities of Poland, with a population of 760,000 (as of 2004) - agglomeration 1.2 million. The rebellion cost Poland the city of Gdańsk, which was taken by the Teutonic Orders, but German-speakers lost their political ambitions and began to Polonize. Kraków was named a European City of Culture in 2000. www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Krakow   (2131 words)

Alternative names of European places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and mis-spellings of the Latin language names. Moreover one of the principal authorities, Ptolemy, wrote in Greek language so names that he records need to be transliteration back into Latin to reveal the original form. Note that in general only one source is shown below for each name, although many of the names are recorded in more than one of the sources. read-and-go.hopto.org /Alternative-names-of-European-places   (183 words)

Encyclopedia: Cities alternative names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) People who viewed "Cities alternative names" also viewed: This article also lists cities of Turkey, Soviet Union. [Note: The name was officially changed from Pressburg/Prešporok/Pozsony to Bratislava in 1919; for a list of older names see Bratislava] www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cities-alternative-names   (2654 words)

[No title] writes.......(Dec 93) The name 'coleman fuel' or 'coleman brandstof' is commonly used in Holland (or The Netherlands). Benzine (can be found in any hardware store in South Africa, and is quite cheap) is perfectly safe to use as a fuel in a stove or lamp. Throughout the country one can obtain "kerosen" (+kerosene, column one) be it in a large supermarket or a small store in a remote area. welcomehome.org /backcountry/fuel.names.txt   (5168 words)

languagehat.com: EUROPEAN CITY NAMES. Chinese names of places in the Chinese sphere of influence are often entirely different than the local names. I'm surprised none of those lists mentions Yangcheng for Guangzhou, since this is the most common alternative name for the provincial capital of Guangdong (used for instance, in the name of the respected newspaper "Yangcheng wanbao" 羊城晚报 - Goat City Evening Paper). I think most cities that ever have been on a frontline have different names. www.languagehat.com /archives/001494.php   (1564 words)

Cities_alternative_names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) Brasta (Lithuanian), Brest-Litovsk (former English and Russian name), Brześć Litewski (Polish), Brześć nad Bugiem (Polish 1918-1939); Lietuvos Brasta (former Lithuanian name); Brisk - בריסק (Yiddish) Mailand (German), Mediolan (Polish), Mediólana (former Greek name), Mediolānum (Latin), Milà (Catalan), Milaan (Dutch), Milán (Czech, Spanish), Milano (Croatian, Esperanto, Finnish, Italian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovene, Turkish), Miláno (Greek, Slovak), Milánó (Hungarian), Mīlānū (Arabic), Milão (Portuguese), Milanas (Lithuanian) Filippopoli (Italian), Philipopolis (Greek, former name), Plovdiv (Bulgarian), Płowdiw (Polish), Pulpudeva (Thracian, former name), Evmolpias (Thracian, former name), Trimontium (Roman, former name), Filibe (Turkish, former name), Paldin (Slav, former name) www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=Cities_alternative_names   (4840 words)

Lviv Resources on Lviv can be found underneath here. SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions Ukraine Lviv, Ukraine Index: Institution names followed by are members of SIBMAS Central State Historical Archives of... in Lviv, near the Ethnographic Museum in the center of the city, is the professional home of an... ukrainecities.impiukraine.com /lviv   (844 words)

NAMES OF EUROPEAN CITIES IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES STYLES, FASHION AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) Petersburg Norwegian, Szentpétervár (Hungarian); Leningrad (former name), Leningrado (former Italian), Lenjingrad (former Serbian), Petrograd (former Russian, former Serbian, former Slovene), Petrohrad (former Czech), Piotrogród (former Polish), Petrapilis (former Lithuanian) Salonic (Romanian), Salonica (alternative English name), Salónica (alternative Spanish name), Salonicco / Tessalonica (Italian), Salonikai (Lithuanian), Saloniki (German, Polish, alternative Greek name), Săruna (Aromanian), Selanik (Turkish), Solun (Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovene), Soluň (Czech), Solún (Slovak), Sołuń (historical Polish name), Tesalonic (alternative Romanian name), Tesalónica (Spanish), Tessalónica (Portuguese), Tessalonika (Finnish), Thessalonique (French) Kalinin (former name), Tver (Italian, Romanian, Slovene), Twer (Polish, German), TverÄ— (Lithuanian), Ćvier - ''Цьвер'' (Belarusian) www.cashorclothes.com /Names_of_European_cities_in_different_languages#L   (6948 words)

ipedia.com: List of European cities with alternative names Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) This article attempts to give all known alternative na... List of European cities with alternative names Article - ipedia.com Derry (official name in Republic of Ireland), Doire (Irish), Londonderry (official British name) www.ipedia.com /list_of_european_cities_with_alternative_names.html   (3897 words)

Three Bits o Trivia: Names of Ferrets, Cities and Postcarders Three Bits o Trivia: Names of Ferrets, Cities and Postcarders Most alternative music fans would not need a history lesson to remember that Istanbul was Constantinople, but less than all of those will recall that Constantinople was Byzantium. To be proper, one might refer to such persons as deltiologists. lexicon.typepad.com /triviums/2005/01/ferret_names_.html   (146 words)

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