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Looks good, but one question: as Imamovo is now in Serbia again, wouldn't it have been returned its original name, Kraljevo? Dalmatinac 16:53, 24 August 2007 (PDT)

I liked Imamovo very much! :D In my opinion, there's no problem with Serbian towns having "Turkish" names because Serbia is *there* much more rural, oriental, and undeveloped than *here*. Towns in Vojvodina would have retained their Hungarian names, and those in Serbia proper would have retained their names with Turkish etymologies... But Sanjak would nevertheless refer to the city as Imamovo, just like they would call Pljevlja Taslidža, Peć Ipek, and Skopje Uškup. --George (talk) 07:39, 25 August 2007 (PDT)
Understood. :) (I take it that, by the same token, Serbia would refer to 'Ferizovac' as 'Urosevac', yes? For the record, I got the Sanjaki name for that city from the Albanian name, Ferizaj... thought it appropriate.) Dalmatinac 11:29, 25 August 2007 (PDT)
No. The original name of that town was Ferizovići in Serbo-Croatian, from which Albanian Ferizaj and Turkish Ferizoviç were derived. *There* the name Ferizovac would have been the only name, because Uroševac was actually invented *here* much later by the Serbian army when they liberated Kosovo from the Ottoman Empire. That never happened *there*. :) --George (talk) 06:06, 26 August 2007 (PDT)