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The description field now reads that "most names featured on this map are pre-1914 Russian names put in English transcription, rather than local or English names as such". In case of Estonia, at least, it is not exactly so as the names featured on the map originate from quite an inconsistent mixture of sources. The largest number of names (examples: Reval, Ösel, Dagö, Hapsal, etc.) are local/German-language names without having undergone any back-and-forth transformations via Russian/Cyrillic alphabet. Examples of the latter (which would have been typical to pre-1914 English-language maps of Estonia) are somewhat less numerous on this map (examples: Vesenberg, Embakh). There appear only two placenames of purely Russian-language origin: Yuriev and Chernoye. And one town, Baltic Port, has been assigned a purely English-language name. 3 Löwi (talk) 09:42, 30 August 2009 (UTC)