Editing Trakai (section)

=={{anchor|Names and etymology}}Names and etymology==
{{see also|Names of Trakai in different languages}}
The name of the city was first recorded in chronicles from 1337 in German as ''Tracken'' (later also spelt ''Traken'') and is derived from the [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] word ''trakai'' (singular: ''trakas'' meaning "[[glade (geography)|glade]]").<ref name="city-name-origin">{{cite web|title=Lietuvos miestų pavadinimų kilmė – tik upės ir pavardės?|trans-title=The origin of Lithuanian city names – only rivers and surnames?|url=https://www.delfi.lt/grynas/gyvenimas/lietuvos-miestu-pavadinimu-kilme-tik-upes-ir-pavardes-54756379|date=28 January 2012|access-date=29 September 2023|website=[[Delfi (web portal)|Delfi]]|lang=lt}}</ref> Since the time of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], the city has been known as ''Troki'' in [[Polish language|Polish]]. Its other alternate names include ''Тро́кі (Tróki, historic)/Трака́й (Trakáj'', modern [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]]), ''Trok'' ([[Yiddish]]),<ref name="Levin2000">{{cite book|author=Dov Levin|title=The Litvaks: a short history of the Jews in Lithuania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3xqMEseAQwC&pg=PA23|access-date=23 March 2011|date=2000|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-57181-264-3|page=23}}</ref> Troky, and Traki.<ref name="SingerAdler1912">{{cite book|author1=Isidore Singer|author2=Cyrus Adler|title=The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_w1swDm2DMC&pg=PA264|access-date=23 March 2011|year=1912|publisher=Funk and Wagnalls|page=264}}</ref><ref name="KaufmannKaufmann2004">{{cite book|author1=J. E. Kaufmann|author2=H. W. Kaufmann|author3=Robert M. Jurga|title=The medieval fortress: castles, forts and walled cities of the Middle Ages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TUNauRscYQUC&pg=PA263|access-date=23 March 2011|date=13 April 2004|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-306-81358-0|page=263}}</ref><ref name="Minahan2002">{{cite book|author=James Minahan|title=Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: D-K|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2WcCIm6WaQC&pg=PA916|access-date=24 March 2011|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32110-8|page=916}}</ref> The name is the origin of the surname ''[[Trotsky (surname)|Trotsky]]'' (lit: of Traki), which [[Leon Trotsky]] would later adopt as a [[pseudonym]] to avoid profiling by the [[Russian Imperial Police]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tahmasebi |first1=Nina |last2=Borin |first2=Lars |last3=Capannini |first3=Gabriele |last4=Dubhashi |first4=Devdatt |last5=Exner |first5=Peter |last6=Forsberg |first6=Markus |last7=Gossen |first7=Gerhard |last8=Johansson |first8=Fredrik D. |last9=Johansson |first9=Richard |last10=Kågebäck |first10=Mikael |last11=Mogren |first11=Olof |date=April 2015 |title=Visions and open challenges for a knowledge-based culturomics |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00799-015-0139-1.pdf |journal=International Journal on Digital Libraries |language=en |volume=15 |issue=2–4 |pages=169–187 |doi=10.1007/s00799-015-0139-1 |s2cid=14625717 |issn=1432-5012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40922059|title=Lev Trotsky in Anecdotes, Jokes and "Chastushkas"|author1=Rogachevskii, Andrei|author2=Wilson, Kenneth W|year=1999|journal=New Zealand Slavonic Journal|pages=375–384|jstor=40922059 }}</ref> the Polish variant of the surname is [[Trocki]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195081374.001.0001/acref-9780195081374-e-63968|title=Dictionary of American Family Names|first=Patrick|last=Hanks|editor-first=Patrick|editor-last=Hanks|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=www.oxfordreference.com|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195081374.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-508137-4 }}</ref>