World Monetary Units: An Historical Dictionary, Country by Country [Paperback]

Howard M. Berlin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 229 pages
• Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub (2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786440422
• ISBN-13: 978-0786440429
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,601,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Place Names of Russia, July 9, 2001

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Karen Hubachek (Annandale, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Placenames of Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Origins and Meanings of the Names for over 2000 Natural Features, Towns, Regions and Countries (Hardcover)

If you are at all interested in toponomy (etymology of place names), you will be fascinated with this book. You will learn, for example, the difference between the seemingly identical endings to the city names "Magnitogorsk" and "Stalinogorsk". It tells you the common basis of the river names Don, Dnieper, Dniester, and throws in the Danube to boot. It distinguishes between Russian and non-Russian names. It gives you previous names: e.g. Ekaterinburg was Sverdlovsk. This last point alone probably makes it worth the price, so much having changed since the breakup of the USSR.