Athens (eponym)
The name of the Greek capital Athens is eponym of cities like
Germany
- " Spree-Athens " for Berlin (1706)
- "German Athens" for Mannheim (after Berlin)
- " Ilm -Athen" for Weimar
- " Pleisse -Athen" for Leipzig
- " Leine -Athen" for Göttingen
Outside of Germany
- "Emajõe Ateena" for Tartu in Estonia (" Embach -Athen" for Dorpat )
- “Athens of the North” for Edinburgh in Scotland
literature
- Georg Ludwig Kriegk : Writings on general geography , W. Engelmann, 1840, p. 118
Individual evidence
- ^ Inka Schwand, Uwe Rada: Baltic encounters: On the way in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania . be.bra verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8393-2104-1 ( google.ee [accessed October 21, 2018]).
- ↑ https://ewh.org.uk/trails/athens-of-the-north