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Old 04-23-12, 03:11 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Betonov View Post
Here's an interesting fact:

In Slovenia st: George is known as sv. Jurij. Sv Jurij was on a 1000 dinar banknote issued in 1920 pre-communist Yugoslavia and from that the term Jurja (a George roughly translated) originated for 1000 dinar, and the tolar and now the euro. 5000 euroes is called 5 jurjev (5 georges)

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