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Castlemap — what’s new · Jul 29, 2026

The little words German and Dutch were missing

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German and Dutch cannot drop the definite article the way this site did: it said “ist Chinesische Mauer” where a German reader expects die Chinesische Mauer. Which names take an article is not guessable — die Alhambra does, Schloss Neuschwanstein does not — so the atlas now reads it from the opening words of each landmark’s own German or Dutch Wikipedia article, where native…

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