Re: Daci

--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:

> BTW shouldn't it really be St. Pietersburg? Finns call it Pitari,

and

> I've heard that Russians call it Piter? St. Petersburg seems like a
> Germanification of something very sea-oriented? Catharina?

The first official name of this 'St. Peter's city' was indeed
something of Dutch flavour: it was {Piterburx} in the earliest
Russian documents. Peter the Great was nearly fluent in both Dutch
and German, but consistently prefered Dutch by some reasons
(recollections of youth?).

Sergei