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U.N. Group <strong>of</strong> <strong>Experts</strong> on Geographical Names Eighth Session New York, 26 Feb.09 March 19'79 Paper No*& LIST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GERMAN EXONYMS I I Submitted by J. Breu and E. Meynen Inclusion or omission <strong>of</strong> names, and reference to countries, do not imply the expression <strong>of</strong> any opinion whatsoever on the part <strong>of</strong> the dompilers <strong>of</strong> the list concerning the legal status <strong>of</strong> any area.or i geographical object,
Introduction The selective list <strong>of</strong> German exonyms submitted to the UNGEGN - has been worked out in accordance with the recommendations <strong>of</strong> the United Nations <strong>of</strong> 1972 and 1977. +I By "exonym" the United Nations understand a geographical name (1) used in a certain language for a geographical object situated outside the area where the given language has <strong>of</strong>ficial status, and (2) which deviates in its form from the name used in the <strong>of</strong>ficial language, or languages; <strong>of</strong> the area where the geographical object is situated. According to Resolution 19, Athens 1977, the following categories <strong>of</strong> exonyms are;excluded from the list: Names that differ from the <strong>of</strong>ficial names only by omission, addition, or modification <strong>of</strong> diacritical signs or the article; further, names which differ from the <strong>of</strong>ficial names only by flexion or derivation; finally names which differ only by translation <strong>of</strong> the generic element <strong>of</strong> the name (examples: Istanbul insted <strong>of</strong> fstanbul, Lode insted <strong>of</strong> addi, Spezia insted <strong>of</strong> La Spezia, Golf van Sant'Eufemia, Pa13 von Roncesvalles), Furthermore, the following names are not included in the list: names <strong>of</strong> independent countries, names <strong>of</strong> continents and oceans, and cases <strong>of</strong> short-lived renaming such as, for instance, Zabrze/ Bindenburg. According to the selective character <strong>of</strong> the list a great number <strong>of</strong> current exonyms other than tose excluded under the above-mentioned restrictions has been left out. . +) Resolution No ' 28 <strong>of</strong> the Second United Nations Conference on .Standardizati& <strong>of</strong> 'Geographical Names, London 1972, and Resolutions No. 18 and 19 <strong>of</strong> the Third United Nations Conference on Standardization <strong>of</strong> Geographical Names, Athens 1977.
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Page 5 and 6: -4. (including Bottensee and Botten
Page 7 and 8: . ! -6- Exonym Official name Countr
Page 9 and 10: Jägerndorf Jakobstadt Jakutien Jan
Page 11 and 12: Exonym Laibach Lakkadiven Lakonien
Page 13 and 14: - 12 - Exonym Neukastilien Neukuhre
Page 15 and 16: - 14 - Exonym Official name Rom Ros
Page 17 and 18: Exonym Teschen Teschen Tessin Tetsc

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