>===== Original Message From phoNet@egroups.com =====
> Just what I feared -- P.C. winning on all fronts ;-)
How's it PC ?
> Atlases, for understandable reasons, give priority to locally official
names
>(sometimes glossed in parentheses). My Polish atlas, for example, has Baile
>Átha Cliath for guess what (with the better-known name in smaller print), La
>Habana (glossed Hawana, in Polish orthography), etc.
Hmm, that's not what I'm familiar with. Atlases _here_ usually give the
English names for things when they exist--Dublin (not "Baile" whatever),
Havana (not Habana), Munich (not München), Vienna (not Wien), Prague (not
Praha), Copenhagen (not København), Warsaw (not Warszawa). And Kraków.
Always Kraków.
Here's an example:
www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/europe/Europe_ref802637_1999.jpg
That's 1999. Prague, Copenhagen, Dublin, Vienna, Munich, Warsaw, Kraków.
From 1998:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/europe/Europe_pol98.jpg
Prague, Copenhagen, Dublin, Vienna, Munich, Warsaw, Kraków.
From 1997:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/europe/Europe_pol97.jpg
Prague, Copenhagen, Dublin, Vienna, Munich, Warsaw, Kraków.
From 1995:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/europe/Europe_95.jpg
Prague, Copenhagen, Dublin, Vienna, Munich, Warsaw, Kraków.
1990: (really big)
www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Atlas_east_europe/Poland-map.jpg
Prague, Copenhagen, Vienna, Warsaw, Kraków.
(It _does_ have Warszawa as a province name though.)
1985:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/europe/Czechoslovakia.jpg
Prague, Vienna, Kraków.
I was five in 1985...
I did find "Cracow" in the maps before the 1900s though.
>Cracow as a traditional English equivalent of Kraków isn't dead yet; just try
>it with any search engine and look at the hits -- you will find some American
>ones.
They obviously got it from all the English websites in .pl ;)
>It's also used officially by some international institutions (e.g.
>UNESCO). Something like "Kraków or Cracow (German Krakau)" is what you'll see
>in most encyclopaedias.
Hmmm...
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