Talk:Kleve

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)

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).

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)

Dutch name

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)

Removed claims about name spelling

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:

• According to Spelling reform#German the key dates in changing German spelling have been 1901 and 1996.
• The CDU in Kleve continues to spell the city name with a K. Here are the website of the CDU in Kleve, the district council members' website, and the Kleve CDU district council Facebook page. (Only the Facebook map spells it with a C.) — ℜob C. alias ALAROB 00:24, 4 March 2023 (UTC)