Latin Names of Modern Cities

Until the Modern Ear, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking. During the 19th and 20th Centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde.  However, information can be easily taken out of context since there is a great deal of repetition of place names throughout Europe; reliance purely on apparent connections should therefore be tempered with valid historical methodology. One caveat that must be observed is that even Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place — for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. During the Middle Ages, these were often shortened to just Colonia. One of these, Colonia Agrippinensis, retains the name today in the form of Cologne.

Following is a List of Cities stating the Latin and equivalent English name (s)