What does the term `twin town` actually mean? For example most towns in the u.k. are twinned with a town in Germany...
2006-09-26 02:57:48 · 7 answers · asked by jrefc2006 2 in Travel ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Liverpool
it was an initiative set up to help small towns share the cultures of other countries. a lot of british towns are twinned with towns in germany to help international relations after the war.
2006-09-26 03:08:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't get me started.....I mean it's just so pointless! Some places are twinned with more than one other town, and surely that's a contradiction in terms!
2006-09-26 05:17:21 · answer #2 · answered by Lisa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Cheshire, Northwich is twinned with 'Dole' in France (sounds like a great place) and Middlewich is twinned amongst other places with Holywell in north Wales!
2006-09-26 08:40:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it somewhat is intently planned or it somewhat is spontaneous. each so often twinning is through shared marketplace or it ought to be a planned commerce or vacationer hyperlink. One place I lived in progressed a twinning purely from college forex journeys. links have additionally been formed the place military troops have been stationed in a foreign country. Birmingham is twinned with different Birminghams. it somewhat is through shared named yet probable additionally, the city founders have been emmigrants with links to the city.
2016-12-15 14:34:48 · answer #4 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe its just the size of the town and population that matches those of in another country.
2006-09-26 03:05:17 · answer #5 · answered by ellested 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess that theres another town in the Europian countries with d same name. live in warringon and it says tinned with USA,or something like that
2006-09-27 19:44:55 · answer #6 · answered by moonangel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know for a fact here in birmingham were twinnned with bangladesh,india and pakistan
2006-09-26 03:32:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋