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According to Dragoș Moldovanu, the name of Brașov came from the name of local river named Bârsa (also pronounced as "Bărsa") that was adopted by Slavs and transformed to Barsa, and later to Barsov, finally to Brasov.<ref>Dragoș Moldovanu, Toponimie de origine romană în Transilvania și în sud-vestul Moldovei, Anuarul de lingvistică și istorie literară, XLIX-L, 2009–2010, Bucuresti, p 59</ref> According to Pál Binder, the current Romanian and the Hungarian name {{lang|hu|Brassó}} ({{IPA-hu|ˈbrɒʃʃoː|}}) are derived from the [[Pecheneg language|Turkic]] word ''barasu'', meaning "white water" with a Slavic suffix ''-ov''.<ref>Alexandru Madgearu, [http://arheologie.ulbsibiu.ro/publicatii/bibliotheca/relatii%20interetnice%20in%20transilvania/6%20madgearu/articol1.htm "Români și pecenegi în sudul Transilvaniei"] {{webarchive|url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20100108011943/http://arheologie.ulbsibiu.ro/publicatii/bibliotheca/relatii%20interetnice%20in%20transilvania/6%20madgearu/articol1.htm|date=2010-01-08}}, Editura Economică, 2005, {{ISBN|973-709-158-2}}</ref> Other linguists proposed various etymologies including an Old Slavic anthroponym Brasa.<ref>Drăganu, Nicolae "Români in veacurile IX—XIV pe baza toponimiei şi a onomasticei" (The Romanians in the 9th - 14th Centuries According to Toponymy and Onomastics), Imprimeria Națională, 1933, București, p.560</ref><ref>Austerlitz, Robert ""Brasov-Brasso'-Kronstadt-Berries and Bushes", in Xenia Slavica; Papers Presented to Gojko Ruzicic on the Occasion of his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, 2 February 1969, [[Rado Lencek]] and [[Boris Unbegaun|Boris O. Unbegaun]], eds. (The Hague: Mouton, 1957), p.19</ref> The first attested mention of this name is ''Terra Saxonum de Barasu'' ("[[Transylvanian Saxons|Saxon]] Land of Baras") in a 1252 document issued by [[Béla IV of Hungary]].<ref name="Orbán Balázs 1868" /> According to some historians, ''Corona'' was name of the city-fortress while ''Brassó'' was referring to the [[Brassó County|county]], while others consider both names may refer to the city and the county as well.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}
===Corona, Kronstadt===
According to Balázs Orbán, the name ''Corona'' – a Latin word meaning "crown" – is first mentioned in the Catalogus Ninivensis in 1235 AD, stating a monastic quarter existed in the territory of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Cumania]] (''In Hungaria assignata est paternitas Dyocesis Cumanie: Corona'').<ref name="Orbán Balázs 1868">{{cite book |author=Orbán Balázs |author-link=Orbán Balázs (író) |title=A Székelyföld leírása VI |year=1868 |location=Pest|title-link=A Székelyföld leírása }}</ref> Pál Binder supposed it is a reference to the St. Catherine's Monastery. Others suggest the name derives from the old [[coat of arms]] of the city, as it is symbolized by the German name ''Kronstadt'' meaning "Crown City". The two names of the city, ''
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