Editing Maribor (section)

==Name==
Maribor was attested in historical sources as ''Marpurch'' {{Circa| 1145}} (and later as ''Marchburch'', ''Marburc'', and ''Marchpurch''), and is a compound of [[Middle High German]] ''march'' '[[March (territorial entity)|march (borderland)]]' + ''burc'' 'fortress'. In modern times, the town's German name is ''Marburg an der Drau'' ({{IPA|de|ˈmaʁbʊʁk ʔan deːɐ̯ ˈdʁaʊ̯|pron}}; literally, 'Marburg on the [[Drava]]').<ref name="Zgodovina na dlani">{{cite web|url=https://zgodovinanadlani.si/1254-maribor-prvic-omenjen-kot-mesto/|title=Zgodovina na dlani|date=6 December 2018 }}</ref>

The Slovene name ''Maribor'' is an artificial Slovenized creation, coined by [[Stanko Vraz]] in 1836. Vraz created the name in the spirit of [[Illyrian movement|Illyrianism]] by analogy with the name ''[[Brandenburg]]'' (cf. [[Lower Sorbian language|Lower Sorbian]] ''Bramborska''). Locally, the town was known in Slovene as ''Marprk'' or ''Marprog''.<ref name="Snoj">{{cite book |last1=Snoj |first1=Marko |title=Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen |date=2009 |publisher=Modrijan |location=Ljubljana |page=252}}</ref> The name ''Maribor'' was accepted among Slovenes in 1861,<ref>{{cite web |title=Predstavitev mesta Maribor |url=https://maribor.si/moje-mesto/zgodovina-maribora/predstavitev-mesta-maribor/ |website=maribor.si |date=10 November 2018 |access-date=27 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127163618/https://maribor.si/moje-mesto/zgodovina-maribora/predstavitev-mesta-maribor/ |archive-date=27 January 2023 |language=sl}}</ref> when [[Lovro Toman]] published a song named ''Mar i bor'', giving the name a Slovene compound ''Mar'' ('to care') + ''i'' ('and') + ''bor'' ('to fight for').<ref name="Maribor obeležuje 180. obletnico svojega imena">{{cite web|url=https://maribor24.si/lokalno/maribor-obelezuje-180-obletnico-svojega-imena/|title=Maribor obeležuje 180. obletnico svojega imena|date=15 November 2016|access-date=27 January 2023|language=sl|website=maribor24.si}}</ref> In addition to its Slovene and German names, the city is also known as ''Marburgum'' in Latin and ''Marburgo'' in Italian.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Berk |first1=Sandi |title=O tujejezičnih ustreznicah za slovenska zemljepisna imena |journal=Geografski Vestnik |date=2001 |volume=73 |issue=1 |page=38}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Il siglario mondiale di enti e imprese economiche |date=1977 |publisher=Banca commerciale italiana |location=Milan |pages=1039, 1202}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Žgajnar |first1=Matija |title=Vojna in Osvobodilna fronta |work=Delo: Sobotna priloga |issue=116 |date=April 27, 1968 |page=13}}</ref>