Görlitz

English ,+ (district) Etymology en :bor de:Görlitz + 1 Proper noun en town/and/rural district s/Saxony c/Germany. Translations city in Saxony, Germany Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 格爾利茨 Gé'ěrlìcí Czech: cs Zhořelec m German: de Görlitz n Polish: pl Görlitz m, pl Zgorzelec m historical Russian: ru Гёрлиц m Silesian: szl Gorlice Slovak: sk Görlitz m, sk Zhorelec m historical Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb Zgórjelc m Upper Sorbian: hsb Zhorjelc m German de:,Landkreis + Etymology First mentioned in Latin as la (in villa) Goreliz in a deed from King Heinrich IV of 1071. Said to be of de sla -/Old de wen - origin, from de sla-pro *gorěti to burn, referring to an establishment on a burned site.Ernst Eichler, Hans Walther: Historisches Ortsnamenbuch von Sachsen. T. II. M – Z. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, s. 334 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.Urkunde Nr. 246 vom 11. Dezember 1071 in: Dietrich von Gladiß u. Alfred Gawlik (Hrsg.): Diplomata regum et imperatorum Germaniae: Tomus IV: Henrici IV. diplomata / Die Urkunden der deutschen Könige und Kaiser: Sechster Band: Die Urkunden Heinrichs IV. Teil 1, hrsg. von Dietrich von Gladiß: 1056–1076 Berlin 1941, S. 311–313 (Monumenta Germaniae historica, Digitalisat) Pronunciation de /ˈɡœʁlɪts/ de De-Görlitz.ogg de LL-Q188 (deu)-Jeuwre-Görlitz.wav de Gör litz Proper noun toponym de town/and/rural district s/Saxony c/Germany Görlitz de historical de Zgorzelec town voi/Lower Silesian Voivodeship c/Poland References Polish pl: thumb|Görlitz Etymology pl :ubor de:Görlitz + 1 Zgorzelec Pronunciation gerlic Gör.litz Proper noun m-in 1 pl town s/Saxony c/Germany Görlitz pl Zgorzelec Further reading pl exonyms