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This is a list of Jewish toponyms used in the Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and other Jewish languages for place-names. The written historical record in Jewish documents refer to place-names only by their Jewish names, which can be confusing if one does not know the correspondence. Also, many Jews continue to refer to place-names by their Jewish toponym, even when speaking other languages, even when no Jewish community currently exists at that location.

The etymology of the names should be included below, as well as the Jewish language in which the toponym was coined.

Latinized Jewish name(s) Hebraized Jewish name(s) Current official name Location information Gittin and Shtarot Citation Other
A–B
C–D
Dantz דאַנץ Gdańsk Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomerania
E–F
Fürth ,פיורדא, פירת פירט Fürth
G–I
K–L
Königsberg, Konigsberg קניגסברג Kaliningrad Russian port exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
Kovno קובנה Kaunas Lithuanian city


M–N
O–P
Pozna פוזנא Poznań Capital of historic Greater Poland
Pressburg פרסברג Bratislava Capital of Slovakia. Home of the Chasam Sofer and the Pressburg Yeshiva
Pumbedita פומבדיתא (Aramaic) Fallujah Central Iraq, on the Euphrates river. Site of great talmudic and geonic era academies
R–S
Satmar, Satmer סאטמר, סאטמאר Satu Mare (in Hungarian: Szatmárnémeti) Partium region of Romania
T–V
X–Z

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