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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.

Click here for enlargement.

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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:

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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