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Exercise 1:
Some editorial issues to solve
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A) What is/are the official names of the
capital of the autonomous region of Alto Adige/Südtirol
in Italy?
B) What is/are the official name(s) of the
capital of the Irish republic?
C) What is/are the official name(s)
of the capitals of Tibet and Sinkiang/Uyghur?
Compare the accompanying maps of Spain from
an English school atlas and from a Spanish school atlas
and try to draw up the internal rules adhered to, when processing
the place names, by the editor of the map for the English
atlas.
![](../../../_ImagesModules/_exercises/E18_images/S18_Ex_image005.jpg)
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![](../../../_ImagesModules/_exercises/E18_images/S18_Ex_image006.jpg)
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Sources of above maps:
Atlas Medio Universal y de España van Aguilar (1959)
en uit de Atlas Four
van Collins-Longman (1975))
Clue:
![](../../../_ImagesModules/_exercises/E18_images/E18_01_ExIssue02.jpg)
During the 1960s in the
Soviet Union, destalinization took place, that is the conversion
of place names that had been renamed after Joseph Stalin into
their previous names (Dushanbe >Stalinabad >Dushanbe
(capital of Tajikistan) or into a new name Tsaritsyn >Stalingrad
> Wolgograd. Try to find 10 more cities in the former Soviet
bloc whose name was changed during the Stalinist era (1923-1953).
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