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gazetteer

German translation: Ortslexikon

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English term or phrase:gazetteer
German translation:Ortslexikon
Entered by: lehmannanke

10:54 May 28, 2010
English to German translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History
English term or phrase: gazetteer
In dem Text geht es um China und seinen Umgang mit Kriegsveteranen in den 1950er Jahren.

The Civil Affairs section of Anhui’s provincial gazetteer notes that, from 1950-1958, the province took in 224,344 veterans, among whom 198,448 (88.5%) were returned to the countryside from which they came

Für gazetteer habe ich "geographisches Lexikon" gefunden, aber auch "amtliches Zeitungsschreiben". Kennt sich jemand mit China aus?
lehmannanke
Local time: 08:30
Ortslexikon
Explanation:
Scheint mir hier am passendsten. "Gazetteer" wird allerdings auch im Deutschen verwendet und könnte hier m. E. auch stehen gelassen werden.
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Boris Rogowski
Germany
Local time: 08:30
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Ortslexikon


Explanation:
Scheint mir hier am passendsten. "Gazetteer" wird allerdings auch im Deutschen verwendet und könnte hier m. E. auch stehen gelassen werden.

Boris Rogowski
Germany
Local time: 08:30
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gudrun Wolfrath: würde Gazetteer wählen
16 mins
agree  erika rubinstein
18 mins
agree  Reinhold Wehrmann
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agree  Rolf Keiser
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agree  Nicole Backhaus
1 day 2 hrs
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