Timeline for Locating burial in Veles ein stadt am agaisczea Meer
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| Feb 9, 2020 at 0:52 | comment | added | monika | I was always told he died in Africa, not sure why he was in Africa in 1914, | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 0:42 | comment | added | monika | Meer usually means sea my grandparents spoke Hungarian and German. | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 8:22 | comment | added | nebulon42 | @JPmiaou there are some big lakes that are also referred to as Meer e.g. the Steinhuder Meer (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhuder_Meer). But for Lake Bled I think that would be rather unlikely. bgwiehle has a better interpretation. | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 1:23 | answer | added | bgwiehle | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 22:42 | comment | added | JPmiaou | According to the 1913 gazetteer of Hungary, Ófutak (Stari Futog) was a town with no predominant language; it lists German, Serbian, Hungarian, and Slovak as native languages claimed by a significant proportion of residents. The local church was Orthodox, Roman Catholics were recorded in next-door Újfutak, and Lutherans had to go a bit further down the road to Újvidék (Novi Sad). For what (little) it's worth, the civil registration office was local (but the only place that's now in Serbia that has any civil registrations available online -- that I've found -- is Szabadka). | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 22:28 | comment | added | JPmiaou | @nebulon42, can't meer "sea" basically mean "lake"? | |
| S Feb 7, 2020 at 20:35 | history | edited | PolyGeo♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 20:26 | comment | added | nebulon42 | His name is of German origin but his birthplace was in today's Serbia. Did he speak German? When reading "Veles" I first thought about "Veldes" (Bled in today's Slovenia). But it does not lie at the sea, just at a lake. It would be helpful if you could reproduce the part of that letter you cite here as image so that people could see the original words. | |
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 20:13 | history | asked | monika | CC BY-SA 4.0 |