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Cities: new nationality, new name

The history of mediaeval and modern contintental Europe is a story of constantly-changing borders. People might go to sleep in one country and wake up in another. Some people, if they lived long enough, might change nationality half a dozen times during their life without ever moving house.

The list on the left shows a former name of some (mostly) well-known European towns and cities at a time when they belonged to a different country to their current one. Can you give the modern name, as normally used in English, for each one?

Some of these names are still in common use, so if you're from one of the countries in question then you may have an advantage.
There is one city which appears twice.
Cities are given in no particular order except that I have tried to put them in a rough order of difficulty. Almost all towns and cities are either politically or historically important - or, of course, both.
All these places are in continental Europe, or as near as makes no difference.
"Austria" in virtually all cases also refers to Austro-Hungary.
Only the last one is a less significant city, but its name is the direct equivalent of the French - see if you can work it out.
Quiz by JonOfKent
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Last updated: October 24, 2023
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Straßburg (when part of Germany)
Strasbourg
Danzig (when part of Prussia)
Gdańsk
Königsberg (when part of Prussia)
Kaliningrad
Lybæk (when part of Denmark)
Lübeck
Nizza (when part of Piedmont)
Nice
Helsingfors (when part of Sweden)
Helsinki
Venedig (when part of Austria)
Venice
Wilno (when part of Poland)
Vilnius
Bükreş (when in the Ottoman Empire)
Bucharest
Selanik (when in the Ottoman Empire)
Thessaloniki
Aix-la-Chapelle (when part of France)
Aachen
Breslau (when part of Germany)
Wrocław
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Preßburg (when part of Austria)
Bratislava
Laibach (when part of Austria)
Ljubljana
Trèves (when part of France)
Trier
Reval (when part of Sweden)
Tallinn
Újvidék (when part of Austro-Hungary)
Novi Sad
Lemberg (when part of Austria)
Lviv
Memel (when part of Prussia)
Klaipėda
Rysel (when part of Flanders)
Lille
Filibe (when in the Ottoman Empire)
Plovdiv
Sankt Veit am Flaum (when part of Austria)
Rijeka
Fiume (when part of Italy)
Rijeka
Bois-le-Duc (when part of France)
's-Hertogenbosch
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Level 85
Apr 21, 2020
Playing EU4 will give you a leg up on this quiz.
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Level 76
Oct 20, 2020
Got 21 lol
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Level 66
Oct 23, 2023
I enjoyed the quiz. One thing, though. As far as I know, Lviv was never ruled by Prussia, instead being called Lemberg due to it being incorporated into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If I am wrong, though, please correct me.
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Level 56
Oct 24, 2023
Very good! Thank you - I'll change it. I'm sure it was just a typing error hem-hem