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Questions about names of places (toponyms), transliterations of foreign names into Chinese and vice versa, origins and variants. Use [names] for questions about person's names or other proper nouns.
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Why is Oxford called 牛津?
There is a paper on the history of both the Chinese translations of Oxford and Cambridge.
https://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/repo/ouka/all/55438/mgsl055_081.pdf
In short,
‘牛津’ was an invention by …
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