2. Amateurliga Bayern 2. Amateurliga Bayern The 2. Amateurliga Bayern was a set of eleven regional leagues in Bavaria existing from 1951 to 1963 as the fourth tier of football in the state. The leagues were disbanded in 1963, when the German football league system was reorganised with the introduction of the "Bundesliga" and replaced by the "Landesligas". The "2. Amateurligas" were introduced in Bavaria in 1951 to replace the previously existing Kreisligas at this level. This step was taken after the introduction of the "2nd Oberliga Süd" as the new second division in Southern Germany in 1950 and the renaming of the
German names for Central European towns while the local Slavic, Magyar, or Romanian inhabitants used their own names for the places in question. After World War II, when the German population of this region was largely expelled, the German names gradually fell into disuse in German and other languages, especially for the minor towns. German names of major cities like Danzig, Königsberg or Breslau are still recognizable and frequently used in Germany (Danzig about half the time; Breslau somewhat less). In only a few cases, the use of the German name persists invariably, i.e. in the case of capital cities like Prague or Warsaw, which are