Talk:Names of European cities in different languages (A)

European

How do you (we?) decide, whether the city is an European one? Almaty is in Central Asia (Kazakhstan) and Antioch in Middle East (Syria - as one of its Polish name, Antiochia Syryjska, suggests). -- Bohusz (talk) 08:53, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Why don't we just delete "European" from the title and widen the scope? It's a "European Project, I know, but why not make it a universal one?

"English name"

The heading is questionable.
"Cracow" , which is definitely the British spelling, is not listed but given as an English variant under "Kraków", which is definitely perfect Polish. Or take "Łódż" - somehow that doesn't look particularly "English" either, but of course is the correct Polish form.
"Lviv" on the other hand is the simplified English version of the Ukrainian "L'viv"
May I suggest a heading "Local or English name. And there are other inconsistencies: There is for instance an entry "Bolzano", but an entry "Sterzing-Vipiteno" - Sterzing is German, Vipiteno Italian - and both are places in the Italian Tyrol.Marschner (talk) 14:29, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Aachen = Aix-la-Chapelle

In the early 1960ies pupils and students in Britain still learned of "Aix-la-Chapelle" mostly in connection with Charlemagne, as their parents had before. The treaty of 1668 that ended the War of Devolution between France and Spain, and the treaty of 1748 that ended the War of the Austrian Succession are still each known as "Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle", and the English were involved in either. At the same time (1960ies) there was also a place called "Aachen" in the papers in connection with Common Market issues. I noticed that many English thought of Aix-la-Chapelle and Aachen as two different places, because they had never before heard of any "Aachen". Marschner (talk) 12:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Astana?

Is Astana really a European city? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.205.213.159 (talk) 04:42, 3 February 2012 (UTC)