From: Adam Flinton 

Frank Haber wrote:
> I sometimes think cross-language city naming, in the more contentious corners
> of Europe, is more like name-calling than translating.  Possibly Lemberg is
to
> Lviv as Leghorn is to Livorno.
>
or as Danzig is to Gdansk...

or as Koenigsberg is to Kaliningrad.

BTW I find it so ironic that of all the sov leaders honoured with a
city/region named after them only kalinin lives on.

esp given his role in katyn wood & the position of kaliningrad.

Adam

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