Thursday, May 11, 2023

What’s in a name?

The Polish government has decided to rename the Russian exclave Kaliningrad. 

On Wednesday, Poland’s development minister, Waldemar Buda, said Kaliningrad would now officially be called Królewiec, its name when it was ruled by the Kingdom of Poland in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Until 1945 the city was a German city and called Königsberg. After the war it was renamed Kaliningrad to honour politician Mikhail Kalinin.

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