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German Name-Change Gazetteer
(Deutsch-fremdsprachiges
Ortsnamenverzeichnis)
[German-Foreign Language Gazetteer]

 by Otto Kredel and Franz Thierfelder

Printed in 1931, this name-change gazetteer identifies virtually every town in pre-World War I Germany and Austria-Hungary that was ceded to other countries or to  new countries such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.  Names are presented in two sequences: Old German name to new name, and new name to old German name. 

Thousands of town named in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. Also Belgium-Holland, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Luxemburg, Soviet Union and Switzerland. Also German names for selected towns in Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey.

Reprinted by Avotaynu in two volumes.

7" x 10"  1172 pp. softcover 2 volumes $89.00 

Sample page from original work