Re: [Cz-L] Translation of "Czernowitz"

Hi June....Czerno means black ---& so Czernowitz/Chernivtsi mean
something like Blackville, or like in UK Blackpool.

from Wikipedia: Aside from Ukrainian, Chernivtsi is also known by many
different foreign names, which were used during times of rule by
different countries throughout the city's history, or by the
respective population groups at the time: Romanian: Cernăuți; German:
Czernowitz; Yiddish: טשערנאוויץ, translit. Tshernovits; Polish:
Czerniowce; Hungarian: Csernovic, Russian: Черновцы́, translit.
Chernovtsy (until 1944: Чернови́цы, translit. Chernovitsy). In the
times of Halych-Volyn Principality the city's name was Chern.

best regards
Sylvia

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, <IrisJune11_at_aol.com> wrote:
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> Does anyone know the meaning or translation of the name "Czernowitz" or
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>                           Iris June Steinhauser Vinegar
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