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Grad (Cyrillic : град) is an Old Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement". [1] Initially present in all related languages as gord , it can still be found as grad, gradić, horod or gorod in many placenames today.
These places have grad as part of their name:
- Asenovgrad ("Asen's town")
- Beograd ("white town"), capital of Serbia, known in English as Belgrade. The largest city with grad in its name (in the 21st century).
- Biograd ("white town")
- Blagoevgrad ("Blagoev's town")
- Csongrád (Serbian : Čongrad), Hungary ("black castle/town")
- Bosilegrad
- Danilovgrad ("Danilo's town")
- Dimitrovgrad ("Dimitrov's town")
- Donji Grad ("lower town")
- Dravograd ("Drava town")
- Filmski Grad ("film town")
- Golem Grad
- Gornji Grad ("upper town")
- Grad, Slovenia
- Gradac ("small town")
- Gradec ("small town/castle")
- Gradina ("large town/castle")
- Gradinje
- Gradisca d'Isonzo (Italian fortress city)
- Gradišče ("town-place/castle-place")
- Gradsko ("of the town")
- Karditsa, Greece (“little town”)
- Gródek ("small town/castle")
- Grodzisk ("town-place/castle-place")
- Grodzisko ("town-place/castle-place")
- Grodziszcze ("town-place/castle-place")
- Ivaylovgrad ("Ivaylo's town")
- Kaliningrad ("Kalinin's town")
- Kirovgrad ("Kirov's town")
- Leningrad ("Lenin's town")
- Moigrad ("my city")
- Mrkonjić Grad ("Mrkonjić's town")
- Novgorod ("new town")
- Novi Grad ("new town")
- Novigrad ("new town")
- Nowogród ("new town")
- Nowogród, Poland ("new town")
- Nowy Gródek ("new small town")
- Petrograd ("Peter's town")
- Petrovgrad ("Peter's town")
- Podgrad ("below the town/castle")
- Pogradec ("below the small town")
- Razgrad ("Hors' town")
- Stalingrad ("Stalin's town")
- Stari Grad ("old town")
- Starigrad ("old town")
- Țarigrad ("king's town")
- Tarnovgrad ("thorny city")
- Titograd ("Tito's town"), the former name for Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro
- Tomislavgrad ("Tomislav's town")
- Topolovgrad ("poplar town")
- Tsargrad ("imperial city"), a Slavic name for Constantinople (present-day Istanbul).
- Velehrad
- Veliko Gradište ("large town-place")
- Velingrad ("Vela's town")
- Vinograd
- Vinogradovca
- Visegrad ("upper town")
- Volgograd ("Volga town")
- Voroshilovgrad ("Voroshilov's town"), in honour of Soviet military commander Kliment Voroshilov.
- Yekaterinograd ("Catherine's town")
- Zlatograd ("gold town")