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Old 12-09-2010, 10:16 PM   #173
Cecil Terwilliger
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Originally Posted by Seachd View Post
They're more borrowed than translated. Translation isn't a very common method for place names to go from one language to another (usually seems to happen in places that have more than one language).

Rome and Moscow are just Roma and Москва anglicized.
And what about names from the Far East? Are those simply anglicized?
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