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The subject of the article is a description of names of marketplaces in three cities of Poland (Kraków, Warszawa, and Rzeszów) in a historic-comparative formulation. A study of means of nomination and structure of the selected group of proper names in synchronic and diachronic aspect, with consideration of different transportation situations, historical factors, topography, and size of the agglomeration in question, indicates quantitative differences and a somewhat dissimilar repertoire of names in individual centers along with preservation of a similar onymic model. The names of marketplaces reflecting the specificity of a given city are described simultaneously with universalistic tendencies in urbanonymy.