Re: [tied] Torun´

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 13922
Date: 2002-06-25

The oldest known version of the name (13th c.) is Thorun (occasional variants: Thuron, Thrun = Latinised Thorunium in Orbis Latinus -- it is there!). It was at that time that the Teutonic Knights built a castle and established a town that replaced an already existing Slavic village. Unfortunately, we don't know what the village had been called previously, hence the long-standing (and once politically charged) dispute about the origin of the name. I think a German origin is more likely after all, given the general place-naming tendencies of the Knights, who did not normally retain or adapt local Slavic or Baltic names, but in that case it dates back only to ca. 1231. Some say it was given after one of the Order's forts in the Holy Land, but I haven't been able to verify that.
 
Piotr
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: tgpedersen
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 8:55 AM
Subject: [tied] Torun´


  What is the etymology of name of the Polish city of Torun´ (German
Thurn?)? It's not on the Orbis Latinus list

Torsten the vain



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