Grad (toponymy)
Grad is an Old Slavic word meaning "town", "city", "castle" or "fortified settlement". Initially present in all related languages as gord, it can still be found as grad, gradić, horod or gorod in many placenames today.
These places have grad as part of their name:
- Asenovgrad
- Beograd, capital of Serbia, known in English as Belgrade. The largest city with grad in its name.
- Biograd
- Blagoevgrad
- Csongrád, Hungary
- Bosilegrad
- Danilovgrad
- Dimitrovgrad
- Donji Grad
- Dravograd
- Filmski Grad
- Golem Grad
- Gornji Grad
- Grad, Slovenia
- Gradac
- Gradec
- Gradina
- Gradinje
- Gradisca d'Isonzo
- Gradišče
- Gradsko
- Karditsa, Greece
- Gródek
- Grodzisk
- Grodzisko
- Grodziszcze
- Ivaylovgrad
- Kaliningrad
- Kirovgrad
- Leningrad
- Moigrad
- Mrkonjić Grad
- Novgorod
- Novi Grad
- Novigrad
- Nowogród
- Nowogród, Poland
- Nowy Gródek
- Petrograd
- Petrovgrad
- Podgrad
- Pogradec
- Razgrad
- Stalingrad
- Stari Grad
- Starigrad
- Țarigrad
- Tarnovgrad
- Titograd, the former name for Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro
- Tomislavgrad
- Topolovgrad
- Tsargrad, a Slavic name for Constantinople.
- Velehrad
- Veliko Gradište
- Velingrad
- Vinograd
- Vinogradovca
- Visegrad
- Volgograd
- Voroshilovgrad, in honour of Soviet military commander Kliment Voroshilov.
- Yekaterinograd
- Zlatograd