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Only one U.S. city with a German name has a population of greater than 100,000. Non-German city names with the suffix "-burg," which in English is partly an altered form the native English suffix -burgh and also partly derived from the related German word, "Burg," meaning "castle", is common for town and city names throughout the United States ...
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
This is a list of sister cities in the United States state of Ohio.Sister cities, known in Europe as twin towns, are cities which partner with each other to promote human contact and cultural links, although this partnering is not limited to cities and often includes counties, regions, states and other sub-national entities.
Germans, for example, are one of the largest immigrant groups and places named after German cities are widespread across the United States. However, there is still a general concentration of them in the Midwestern United States, especially in Missouri. Other sources of foreign names transferred to the U.S. are the Bible and ancient history ...
Malmö (/ ˈ m æ l m ə / ⓘ; [4] Swedish: Malmö [ˈmâlːmøː] ⓘ; Danish: Malmø [ˈmælmˌøˀ]) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Skåne (Scania). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal population of 357,377 in 2022. [5]
[27] The city passed an ordinance to change all German street names in the city. [26] In Over-the-Rhine, Bremen Street was changed to Republic and Hanover became Yukon Street. [ 28 ] As happened in some other areas of the country with numerous ethnic Germans, the state closed German-language schools, dismissed teachers of German, and banned ...
The central city is Malmö. The municipality is part of Metropolitan Malmö and constitutes its own constituency in parliamentary elections in Sweden. [3] When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863, the Old City of Malmö was made one of the country's 88 city municipalities and the first city council was elected.
The Ohio Rhineland (German: Ohio Rheinland) is a German cultural region of Ohio. It was named by Rhinelanders and other Germans who settled the area in the mid-19th century. [ 1 ] They named the canal "the Rhine" in reference to the river Rhine in Germany , and the newly settled area north of the canal as " Over the Rhine ".