Re: [tied] Re: Etymology of "Warsaw"

From: petusek
Message: 34055
Date: 2004-09-07

>>In neither case is there anything Hungarian or Turkic about the name.
>>
>>Piotr
>
>Its name in Hungarian is completely different: Pozsony ['poZoƱ].
>
>George

Perhaps, the article I posted talked about "Z^itny' ostrov", which, I think,
is an island on the Danube river. It is an important part of Bratislava
nowadays and the article claimed, it had never been settled by Slavs - only
Hungarians and later also Germans.

Petusek