# expand of miniGOV because some Mini-GOVs contain "previous german names"
# for each former German name an entry is also created so that it can be found
expandMiniGOV=[]# initialize
foriinminiGOV:
ifi["letzter deutscher Name"]!="":
i["aktueller Name"]=i["letzter deutscher Name"]# overwrite the current name with the last german name
else:
continue;# do not append
expandMiniGOV.append(i)
# merge miniGOV and expandMiniGOV
miniGOV=miniGOV+expandMiniGOV
# alphabetical sorting of miniGOV in relation to the column with the name of the place
# all designations are written in lower case
# .lower() is extremely important here, because otherwise capital letters are preferred over small ones and such cases occur in the GOV (e.g. some places starting with IJ, IJselstein)