Questions tagged [places]
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Was "Novgorod" in 1815 one city or the other?
This question is not about grammar or syntax, but about historical toponymy.
In 1815 an employee of the Russian-American Company was taken prisoner in Spanish California. An interpreter from a ...
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Mainland Russia as seen from Kamchatka circa 1800
Kamchatka is a peninsula, but overland access is so difficult that it also resembles an island. The road and rail networks of Siberia are a long sea or air voyage away.
Around the year 1800, how ...
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Origin of name "Kamchatka"
I am seeking the etyomology of the name of the peninsula, Kamchatka. The only explanation I have found is in the old book "A shooting trip to Kamchatka", which suggests that it comes from a term ...
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Use of "Kamchatka" to represent any poor, faraway place
In Russia, the place name "Kamchatka" at some point became a generalized means of referring to faraway, underresourced, or undesirable places (according to a couple of sources, this includes the far ...
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