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Suggest moving this to Kleve - I've never heard Cleves used for anything more recent than Anne! Gerry Lynch 16:13, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I came to the talk page to make virtually the same comment! I think having the article here really is rather anachronistic, a bit like having Regensburg at Ratisbon, Aachen at Aix-la-Chapelle, or Speyer at Spires. The medieval state has a separate article anyway, at Duchy of Cleves. Silverhelm 08:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC).[reply]

In Spanish Wikipedia we make the effort to mantain almost all historical names, and if you want examples Aix-la-Chapelle: Aquisgrán, Spires: Espira, Ratisbon: Ratisbona. The final decision is related to the self esteem of English-speakers and respect to your English-language culture. As I can see, a lot of English-speakers tend to say 'Köln' instead of Cologne in social media, so the decision is finally yours. Lucjim (talk) 13:02, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dutch name

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Kleve was and is no part of the Netherlands. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.176.233.91 (talk) 15:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removed claims about name spelling

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Two sentences in the "History" section made unsourced and apparently false claims, viz.:

  • that spelling reform in the 1930s forced a change from "Cleve" to "Kleve"
  • that the CDU in 2008 announced it would change the spelling back to "Cleve"

These claims went unsourced. I have these objections: