JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: re: So called "Bogdan" in Czechoslovakia #general
tom
That's nice but a bit misleading.
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The 1913 gazeteer of greater Hungary (bogardi.com) lists eight places for "bogdan", where it is the customary Hungarian usage to prepend an adjective, such as "nyir-" or "tisza-" to distinguish it >from other places with the same name. In this particular case, Nyirbogdany is one of the two that are still in present-day Hungary (Dunabogdany is the other), that were never part of Czechoslovakia - which probably rules them out. Three of the others are in present-day Slovakia, 2 in Romania, and 1 in Ukraine. Only 2 of the hits were in the same megye (county). The four most likely candidates are the 3 Slovak towns, and the one in the Ukraine, and my bet is on Tiszabogdany (Maramaros), which is present-day Bohdan in the Ukraine. (It's also in the JewishGen communities database.) ....... tom klein, toronto PS. "Bogdan" was once a very common given name, of Slavic origin, which means "gift of god" (equivalent to "Theodore" or "Netanyahu" :-)). It later became a surname, as well as a place name.
Phyllis Kramer <phylliskramer1@gmail.com> wrote:Eve Line Blum posted : I couldn't find any town named "Bogdan" inThere is an oh so simple way to find this town...go to the JewishGen
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