Danish language exonyms for non-Danish speaking locations exist, primarily in Europe, but many of these are no longer commonly used, with a few notable exceptions. "Rom" (Rome), "Lissabon" (Lisboa (Lisbon)), "Sankt Petersborg" (St Petersburg) and "Prag" (Prague) are still compulsory, while e.g. "Venedig" is more common than "Venezia" (Venice). In the decades following World War II, there has been a strong tendency towards replacing Danish exonyms with the native equivalent used in the foreign country itself. Possibly this is because many of these Danish forms (e.g. for names in Belgium, Italy and Eastern Europe) were imported from German.