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Names, previous names and alternative names for cities and towns in the region
 
Almaty < Alma Ata
Bishkek < Frunze
Brasov < Kronstadt
Bratislava < Preßburg / Sopron
Brno < Brünnen
Bydgoszcz < Bromberg 
Cluj
Nasran < Grosny. Attempted rename in 1991 by Chechen-Inghushetia.
Hradec Kralové < Königgrätz
Kishinev < Chisinau
Kaliningrad < Königsberg
Košice < Kaschau / Kassa
Kraków < Krakau
Ljubljana < Laibach
Nizhni Novgorod < Gorki < Nizhi Novgorod
Novi Sad < Neusatz 
Opole < Oppeln
Pecs < Fünfkirchen
Poznan < Posen
Vladikavkas < Ordzhonikidze 1991 Capital of N. Ossetia
St. Petersburg < Leningrad < Petrograd < St. Petersburg
< Sverdlovsk
Taartu < Dorpat
Vistula < Weichsel 
Volgograd < Stalingrad
Walbrzych < Waldenburg 
Wroclaw < Breslau
Yekaterinburg
Zagreb < Agram

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