Boundary

Granica is the old Slavic word for boundary. It is in most Slavic languages ​​unchanged obtain (Cyrillic граница ), only in Czech it means hranice.

In the Middle Ages Granica was in the wake of the German eastward expansion from the old Polish graniza, graenizen or greniz adopted as a loan word into German. It soon displaced the Frankish word mark - as the Upper German Anewand (where the plow turns ), the only regionally (eg in the Waldviertel ) in use today.

From Granica and its variations, different family names are derived from, for example Granitz, Graenitz or Grantz.

The following place names are derived from Granica:

  • Granica, actually a former border town
  • Kupe granica (Slovenia )
  • Gračnica, Slovenian name for Gratschitzen (also Gratschenitzen, Gratschützen ), a mountain on the northern slope of the Karawanken in Carinthia
  • Granitze (a mountain ) and Granitztal ( tributary of the Lavant Valley ) in Carinthia
  • Granitzen and Granitzenbach in Styria
  • In other German-speaking countries as Grenchen, Graenichen, Bern ( Switzerland ), etc.
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