Talk:Studentski grad, Sofia

град
град translates to city, doesn't it? then i think it should be students' city instead of town--Infestor (talk) 15:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, most languages that I'm familiar with don't have separate words for a the concepts of town and city. I believe it's just a matter of size and it's very subjective. Sofia is a grad as much as Melnik is even though Sofia is strictly a city and Melnik is too small even for a town. Though the concepts are easy to distinguish in that example, things get pretty tough when dealing with such borderline cases: is Studentski grad a city with its 40,000 residents or is it a town? As I said, that can't be said for sure. If you like city better, feel free to edit the article. Personally, I don't mind either. Todor→Bozhinov 17:51, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * No, град doesn't translates to "city" only, but also to "town".


 * Generally speaking, towns are smaller than cities. Assuming that Sofia is much larger than "Studentski Grad", that "Studentski Grad" is de facto part and district of Sofia (and indeed an important one) and not the opposite, and most importantly -- that Sofia has a national status of a city -- then it would be inaccurate to call it officially "city" (the borough). I would call it "borough", as that's what it most closely resembles.


 * Colloquially, it is "city" -- the student's "city". In the address registration, it clearly spells "Student's City". But one can't be citizen of this borough, just a resident.


 * The dictionary I use translates "city" literally to "large town", or "a town, which gained the right to self-govern by the King's ordinance", or "the central commercial portion of a large town"; "town" translates to what Grad from "Studentski Grad" stands for. However, Град translates to both "town" and "city", in that order, not just то "city". "Borough" stands for "small town/city (municipal)", or an administrative unit of New York City. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Diyan.boyanov (talk • contribs) 09:58, 17 November 2009 (UTC)