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A NOTE ON PLACE NAMES Where there are commonly recognized English designations for places discussed here, such as Vienna, Prague, or Bohemia, they will be used. Otherwise, the place names that are currently recognized by the various states of Central and East-Cel1tral Europe will be employed so that readers can find these places in present~day atlases and other reference works. For readers more accustomeq to the German or Hun-" garian place names that were used before 1918, those will be given in parentheses the first time a place is mentioned.. xv ...

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