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Now after a year of working on the German newspapers, I have finished the full descriptions of the first half of the century. As per usuall, many peculiarities were found and more questions remain to be answered. One of them has to do with historic place names. Newspapers often report the last occurrences from very small towns and settlements and with shifting political boundaries mainly in the western part of Eastern Europe in the regions of Bohemia, Silesia, Lusatia, and Prussia, it is very unclear to which places the headlines make a reference to. Often, reading the news report will reveal the area where the news originated from and laborious search in the Czech Old Maps project  and Walter Sperling´s Geographische Namen in den böhmischen Ländern has helped to solve some of the toponymic brain-twisters, yet others remain unclear.I have put together a list with all toponyms in the spelling in which they appear in the sources and I am seeking help from the community in locating these places with their today´s name. If the news give information on the whereabouts of their origin, I have noted them in square brackets in the hope that this might make potentially unclear cases more clear. Any suggestions, either in the comments field below or at jh230@st-andrews.ac.uk is much welcomed.(Specifications in round brackets represent additional information found in the news text)[Specifications in square brackets represent conjectures]AAiste [Aistersheim?]ArinequeArionAffendeAuxoneArien [fr, Aire-sur-la-Lys; Ariën aan de Leie, nl?]Auance (Luxembourg)AvendiAnerbach (Zwickau)AstracanBBeer (Seeland)BrachsundBeurnt (Dunkirk)Beel (Saint-Omer)BrisBarckwitzBriefflingen (Regensburg)BourbergBasseeBajelBilßig (Pilsen)BorielBolonia (Fonterabia)Busch [’s-Hertogenbosch?]Bruch [Bruges?]BourbergBilitz [Bielice?]Bördehunde (Stade)Bettaw [Bettau?]Birna [Pirna?]Bousingen (Ypres)Blienbeck [Lower Rhine]CCalwitzCada (Rackonitz)CadanCaadan [Prague?]Cläue (Switzerland)Caminitz [= Kamenice?]CalmseeCortrych / CortreichCortrychCodaChastilletCartau [Karthaus, dt; Kartuzy, pl]CaminitzCräfnigCharlevilles [Charleville-Mézières?]CößlinGünneckensConstants (Normandy, Jersey)&#160;DDeusingenDarneton (Lamloy)Dreckvoerde (Bremen)Doures (Pleymuyden, Toulon, Neuhatel)DatichDepfingen [Breisgau]Dels / DelspurgDöppel (Bohemia)DommelnDuynsDorn [Torun, PL?]Doren [Torun, PL?]Diselitze (Selestat, Alsace)DierenhovenDirna (Hungary)Dort (Geldern, Breda)yDornick (Utrecht)Druynen&#160;EEtre au PontEngloyElsterfeld (Solingen)EiteltaubEspoyEbertzhausen [Ebertshausen?]Egra [Eger?]Einböck [Einbeck?]FFreihenwaldtFalckenauFriedburg (Meissen)FielckingenGGlockau [Klockau, Glockau?]GlattaGlattau (Pilsen, Bohüten)Gottorf [Castle, Schleswig?]GorckomGertraudenberg [Osnabrück?]GustranGobißlawGeuweylerGoth (Brussels)GräbelsbaumGerowitz (Moravia)GesuditzGuyicGilobitzGlattaGrumauHHochstrassenHollweck (Styria)Högau [Hegau, BW?]Höge (Verden)HülstHonßcoteIInauniontItzsteinJJochenthalJavier (Liegnitz)Jeßdorf [Silesia]Jungen Puntzel [Bolesławiec?]KKönigsfahl [Poland?]KaisersmarckKößtingKünzbergKönigswarter Schantz [Valy u Mariánských Lázní?]LLitzheimLeutsch (Neuensahl)LammgenLorenzen (Saar)Lentzen (Berlin)Licha (Spain)Leutzen (Schausen, Osterburg)LandrechicLoißLutin (Schwerin)Leitzhazsen (Hirschfeld)LiesstenhoeckMMasiersMaynungen [Meiningen?]MahnsitMalmüheMechelburgMoerspuyMünchenNeuburgMargenburgMendelingenNNewburg (Rinteln area)Nuewerck (England) [Newark-on-Trent?]NewenfahlNewgarden (Pletzkow)NamenNeuß [Opole, Poland; NOT Neuss, Lower Rhine]OOber-ZapfenOpsahlObßfelt [Gorleben]Ostorp (Piedmont)OsteckeloObergrundtOrtenitzPPassingen (Darmstadt)PulckhadenPletede (Ratzeburg)PiritzPosingen (Darmstadt)Pont DeséPelion (Barcelona)PilgremPleymuydenParleducPoklitz (Pomerania)Prümb (Alsace, NOT Prüm / Eifel)Philippine (Bergen op Zoom)RRazena [Ohrazenice, CZ?]RenevilReiningen (Moselle)Redlingen (Westphalia)Rockenzahn (Thauß)RonnenRehneRhetel (Brno)RosignolRothmünsterRühl (Holstein)RutenplanRussachRetschisRoteneyReuss [Russia?]SSparenbergSittart / SittertSitta (Luben)SogkSandflieth (Rosedaal, Brabant)StuckhartSchluytzStattberg (Kassel)Schäff-UlenheimSchluysSchluyßSettschinS. TruyenSchlackenawSirowitzSyre (Russian Headquarter)SilainSalsaden (Flanders)StrigaSiedholmSchüttStoplochSchlitta (Bohemia)TTer Gow (Friesland, Groningen)TöpelTelzsch (Iglau)TheysingenTeutschenbrod (Bohemia)TrübelThoren [Torun?]TschebotinTrettow (Holstein)Tzenßbochaw (Poland, probably typo)TrytoUUerdenburgVValencin [Valenciennes or one of the various French Valencin-sur … ?]Vlyssingen [Vlissingen?]WWellischWehl (Hamburg)Wallstein (Molsheim, Alsace, Kreuznach)WouweWareneWatteneWeedek (Bremen)WodianWodinawWodino [Vodňany?]Wehel [Wehl, NL?]YYpß (Austria)ZZawingsZoouß (Witlingshofen)Zuo (Liège)ZüpzZülling