City-entrance signs in Europe

[mirza-sm]

Originally Posted by zsimi80

Hungarian version: Szarajevó

Originally Posted by piotr71

Is not Czech and Slovak š, č similarly pronounced to Polish sz, cz but a bit softer? Not as soft as Polish "Ś, ć" though.

Btw. we say Sarajewo

So I made a mix of Hungarian and Polish of Sarajevo?!

Yeah I know that Czechs and Slovaks dont use SZ, Polish and Hungarians do, but Slovaks and Czechs use W instead of V and Y instead of I sometimes, so we in Bosnia find it cool, cuz we dont use those words. I actually do hate when spoiled Bosnian teens use "W" in facebook instead of "V" like "Wolim teeeeee" instead of "Volim te".

[Czas na Żywiec]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy Llama

But you know that sz=š ?

Nevertheless, normal Polish entrance signs (the previous example from Katowice is unofficial) looks like this:


White sign means the beginning of built-up area. Usually it is placed together with the sign with place name, but sometimes the green sign is placed at the administrative border and the built-up area begins further, where there are actually some buildings alongside the road.

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Yep.

My favorite Polish village.

[brisavoine]

Originally Posted by zsimi80

New types:




old ones:

That's a copy and paste of the French city signs' design it seems. Only the font is different.

[paF4uko]

Originally Posted by Czas na Żywiec

My favorite Polish village.

Mine too! And talking about this, as we're in the winter, I'll grab a glass of Żubrówka...

Here are some from Bulgaria:

[Czas na Żywiec]

Do all signs in Bulgaria use both scripts on their signage or do you have any that are just in Cyrillic?

[bozata90]

Originally Posted by Czas na Żywiec

Do all signs in Bulgaria use both scripts on their signage or do you have any that are just in Cyrillic?

New signs have to be with both scripts. Since not all of the signs are changed tough, we still have a lot of signs, written only in Cyrillic (mainly inside cities and off the main roads).

[banjaluka]

Originally Posted by mirza-sm

Entrance from Croatia to the city of Neum, the coastal city in Bosnia & Herzegovina

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Isn´t this sign for the country?

[banjaluka]

This is for my town

[Barciur]

So only the white/black sign means you have to drive 50 km/h?

That is correct, as this is a sign used for marking entrance to any town even very small village.

Also, those types of signs were also used for cities before and they meant beginning of the city AND built up area - I believe they are no longer used in favour of a green sign + built up area sign combo... nonetheless, this is a picture from a video I took in about 2004 I believe.



Here is how it looks like because quality of the other video is horrible nonetheless I wanted to show you how it looked in real life.

[aswnl]

ALL Dutch town-limit signs: http://borden.plaatsengids.nl/
(Site in Dutch; simply navigate to provinces and choose town name)

Normal Dutch sign (up: new; down: old). The sign indicates a speed limit 50 km/h zone.


When the town is part of a greater municipality. Also speed limit 50.

The Swifterbant example indicates also how the end of a town is being signed: with a red dash trough the sign.

Sign for a neighbourhood. This white sign has no effect on the speed limit.

[Norkey]

Originally Posted by mirza-sm

Yeah I know that Czechs and Slovaks dont use SZ, Polish and Hungarians do, but Slovaks and Czechs use W instead of V and Y instead of I sometimes, so we in Bosnia find it cool, cuz we dont use those words. I actually do hate when spoiled Bosnian teens use "W" in facebook instead of "V" like "Wolim teeeeee" instead of "Volim te".

Using W is also quite popular here, mostly among teenagers.. widim to celkem pozitiwně.

official:


Most of the towns use also "Welcome" signs, some also signs to show their partner cities - but there are no regulations how they should look...

[mirza-sm]

Originally Posted by banjaluka

Isn´t this sign for the country?

Yeh, its both actually, entrance in the country and the city of Neum

[domtoren]

This one is on a road between Delft and Rotterdam, in a divided village Zweth/De Zweth (an okd name meaning border) now it's still the limit between Midden Delfland and Rotterdam municipalities.

[piotr71]

It was my first trip out of London back to 2004, just after I moved to England.

[Patrick]

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortstafel

[Pansori]

A few random signs from my archive

Leaving Vilnius on A2 (Lithuania)
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Decorative sign of Vilnius entering on A3 (Lithuania)
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Couple of signs of some small villages in Western part of Lithuania
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Lithuania sign entering from Poland on some non-numbered forest road. The sign cas clearly stayed here since pre-EU times... seemingly noone bothered to change it
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Same on the Polish side. Old sign
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Munich
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Salzburg
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[Richie D.]

The Salzburg sign looks very much non-standard. At least it doesn't use the usual font used for Austrian road signs.

[Pansori]

A couple more from Lithuania

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Part of the sign to the left is missing in the photo. The full name of that town is "Naujieji Zadvarninkai".... try pronouncing that (even for Lithuanians it's not that easy)
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[domtoren]

Majevka



Kaliningrad

Village and city entrance signs in the Kaliningrad oblast (part of the former German Eastern Prussia).

[domtoren]

The entrance sign to Utrecht, the fourth city of the Netherlands