[Cz-L] Names

Czernowitz, Bukowina - Etymology.

Chern = Forest (Russian).
Vina = beginning, cause, source
  Bukovina (Buko-vina) = beginning, source of
  the timber rafting of wood of the beech species along the river Prut .
Chernovitsy , ­Chern-na-vitse, that is Chern on the Prut.
According to its meaning apparently meant ­beech woods on the Prut.

 Then came the chauvinistic Ukraineans and "Ukrainianized"
  Chernovitsi to Chernivtsi like they did to Lwow (Lviv)
   Tarnopol(Ternipil) and more.
   Had they taken England the capital would be Lindin.
    The Beattles iriginate in Liverpil ,and the famous college is in Ixfird=
.
    The capital of Hawaii would be Hinilulu and Gaudi's city Barcelina.
      Rome the call Rim fir a ling time .
         Hardy
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