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Grad (toponymy)

Place name element meaning 'town'

Summary

Place name element meaning 'town'

Grad (град) is an Old Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement".{{cite book | editor-first1 = Jan | editor-last1 = Klápště | editor-first2 = Petr | editor-last2 = Sommer

These places have grad as part of their name:

  • Asenovgrad ("Asen's town")
  • Beograd ("white town"), capital of Serbia, known in English as Belgrade. The largest city with grad in its name (in the 21st century).
  • Biograd ("white town")
  • Blagoevgrad ("Blagoev's town")
  • Csongrád (Čongrad), Hungary ("black castle/town")
  • Bosilegrad
  • Danilovgrad ("Danilo's town")
  • Dimitrovgrad ("Dimitrov's town")
  • Donji Grad ("lower town")
  • Dravograd ("Drava town")
  • Filmski Grad ("film town")
  • Golem Grad
  • Gornji Grad ("upper town")
  • Grad, Slovenia
  • Gradac ("small town")
  • Gradec ("small town/castle")
  • Gradina ("large town/castle")
  • Gradinje
  • Gradisca d'Isonzo (Italian fortress city)
  • Gradišče ("town-place/castle-place")
  • Gradsko ("of the town")
  • Karditsa, Greece (“little town”)
  • Gródek ("small town/castle")
  • Grodzisk ("town-place/castle-place")
  • Grodzisko ("town-place/castle-place")
  • Grodziszcze ("town-place/castle-place")
  • Ivaylovgrad ("Ivaylo's town")
  • Kaliningrad ("Kalinin's town")
  • Kirovgrad ("Kirov's town")
  • Leningrad ("Lenin's town")
  • Moigrad ("my city")
  • Mrkonjić Grad ("Mrkonjić's town")
  • Novgorod ("new town")
  • Novi Grad ("new town")
  • Novigrad ("new town")
  • Nowogród ("new town")
  • Nowogród, Poland ("new town")
  • Nowy Gródek ("new small town")
  • Petrograd ("Peter's town")
  • Petrovgrad ("Peter's town")
  • Podgrad ("below the town/castle")
  • Pogradec ("below the small town")
  • Razgrad ("Hors' town")
  • Stalingrad ("Stalin's town")
  • Stari Grad ("old town")
  • Starigrad ("old town")
  • Țarigrad ("king's town")
  • Tarnovgrad ("thorny city")
  • Titograd ("Tito's town"), the former name for Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro
  • Tomislavgrad ("Tomislav's town")
  • Topolovgrad ("poplar town")
  • Tsargrad ("imperial city"), a Slavic name for Constantinople (present-day Istanbul).
  • Velehrad
  • Veliko Gradište ("large town-place")
  • Velingrad ("Vela's town")
  • Vinograd
  • Vinogradovca
  • Visegrad ("upper town")
  • Volgograd ("Volga town")
  • Voroshilovgrad ("Voroshilov's town"), in honour of Soviet military commander Kliment Voroshilov.
  • Yekaterinograd ("Catherine's town")
  • Zlatograd ("gold town")

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