Tauragė
A settlement in Lithuania.
English name
Tauragė — Current Lithuanian Latin-script name, retained in English with its native diacritics.
Other forms in use:
- Tauroggen — German historical name well established in English accounts of the 1812 convention.
- Taurog — Yiddish-derived name in English Jewish historical writing.
- Taurogi — Polish historical name.
- Taurage — Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym.
French name
Tauragė — Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Tauroggen — Established historical name in French accounts of the convention of 1812.
- Taurogi — Polish historical designation in French regional history.
- Taurog — Jewish historical search form.
- Taurage — Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French.
About
Tauragė is a town on the Jūra river in western Lithuania. Its borderland history includes the Convention of Tauroggen during the Napoleonic wars.
Notes
Tauragė is the current Lithuanian name; Tauroggen persists especially as the name associated with the convention. Input label 'Таураге' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q193787 · JSON
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