S08: Multilingual names, minority names
  
 

1. Examples of multilingual areas
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South-Tirol: Italian triumphal arch in Bozen

Inscription: HINC CETEROS EXCOLUMUS LINGUA LEGIBUS ARTIBUS / To this frontier we have civilised the others with language, laws and arts


Vintschgau-Val Venosta

The same area on Italian maps (Carta d'Italia 1:100 000) from 1908 (top) and 1967 (below) with German names (top) and Italianised names (below) respectively.




Italian, German and Ladin name versions in Northeastern Italy


Carta Nazionale della Svizzera 1: 50 000 Glorenza, 259bis. 1981

 
 
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