Xanten

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Proper noun

 * , a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, near the Rhine

Etymology
From, from. The spelling with initial X- first appears in Latin texts of the 10th century. One theory links it with, the gods’ name for the river near Troy according to the. This theory is based on the fact that there was indeed a well-attested mediaeval legend equating Xanten with Troy. The inherited local pronunciation is /ˈsan.tən/, but it has now been widely displaced by the. is the only German locality in X- (though there are a few Bavarian ones in Gs-, also pronounced with ).