On 18/12/17 07:27, Brian Inglis wrote:
Kiev or Kyiv? http://www.infoukes.com/faq/kyiv-2/
There is some argument on linguistic lists/groups that the name may have Iranian or Turkic origins, as the founding stories seem legendary or mythical.
My own preferred reference for names is still geonames, and while Kiev is still tagged as the preferred name against entry 703448, 'hadjek' changed the reference name from Kiev to Kyiv only in July this year although there has been an occasional edit war using Київ back in 2006 to 2007 but the majority of changes are to Alternate names ... with now there are several versions in some languages but only Kiev flagged as 'preferred'. The bottom line is that there is no formal central database of names one can use as a primary reference? http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=128141 is a little at odds with http://www.geonames.org/703448/kyiv.html with both are currently using Kyiv as the primary reference but giving Kiev as the preferred name. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk