Of which famous Italian bordertown can the name also be written in four letters none of which represents a vowel?

lanfranco

That would probably be Trieste, which in Slovenian and Croatian is Trst. Aug 15 05, 12:34 PM

Flem-ish

Sure it is. Ancient Tergeste or Tergestum. Svevo and Joyce lived there. Rilke was near by in Duino. Bilingual areas are fun somehow.Just seeing how Italian Capodistria suddenly becomes Koper and how Laibach is Ljubljana. And how Italian roadsigns change Munich into Monaco (di Baviera). Aug 15 05, 1:50 PM

Arpeggionist

Or how Muncacz, Hungary was also known for a while as Mukachevo (Czechoslovakia), or why Jerusalem is known in Hebrew as Y'rushalayim and in Arabic as Urushalim (or AlQuds). Monolingual people are often confused by the multilinguility of certain places on our fair planet. Aug 16 05, 7:16 AM

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