Anything starting with "Gawjam" (sorry, I don't know how to do the accents). They just look so odd to me. I don't care about pronouncing them correctly (honestly, who is ever going to hear me, nevermind correct me with these), but I'm just confused. Also there is the: swebotraustastamnoz. What in the heck is that?

I know this is being pedantic, but what I was asking was maybe if the cities have a modern name, to maybe give me the modern name in parens ( )? For example, swebotraustastamnoz may be Berlin (heck if I can tell), but that would be easier for me. Most of the eastern names I can fake (just use good old phonetics).

I wonder...are these names from a separate language group? Not indo-european, but maybe the Finno-ugric (is that even close?) language group? That would help explain why I think they look so odd.

Thanks,
Azi