Görlitz.
Görlitz (a town and rural district of Saxony, Germany)
Meaning & usage
Görlitz (a town and rural district of Saxony, Germany)
Zgorzelec (a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland)
Where this word comes from
First mentioned in Latin as (in villa) Goreliz in a deed from King Heinrich IV of 1071. Said to be of Slavic/Old Sorbian origin, from Proto-Slavic *gorěti (“to burn”), referring to an establishment on a burned site. Its mentioning is connected to the transfer of some of the king's properties located in the eastern part of Upper Lusatia to the cathedral chapter of Meißen.
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