Originally Posted by
jackal
I've always wondered how London becomes Londres in Spanish and München, Lisboa, and Porto become Munich, Lisbon, and Oporto in English.
Well, the French have Londres, Edimbourg and Douvres for London, Edinburgh and Dover: I guess they're just local variants of names of towns that have some significance. And what we call Copenhagen the Danes call København — which really just means "shop harbour", and you can more or less imagine that an English town might have been called "Market Harbour"...