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Gorod (toponymy)

Slavic word

Summary

Slavic word

Gorod (город) is a version of the Slavic word meaning "town", "city" or "castle", and is related to the similar grad and horod.

It is preserved in the toponymy of numerous Slavic places:

  • Bely Gorod
  • Belgorod
  • Gorodets (with -ets as the suffix of diminutiveness)
  • Gorodishche (with -ishche as the suffix of augmentation)
  • Ivangorod
  • Kitai-gorod
  • Kitay-Gorod (Metro), cross-platform transfer point of the Moscow Metro
  • Slavgorod
  • Nizhny Novgorod
  • Veliky Novgorod
  • Zvenigorod

References

References

  1. Zubacheva, Ksenia. (2020-01-17). "Moscow has its own Chinatown, but it’s not what you think".
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