German names for Central European towns

Okay kiddo, so you know how we live in a town called "Springfield"? Well, in a place called Central Europe, they have their own towns too. And they have special names for those towns that are in German.
Now, German is a language that they speak in some countries in Central Europe like Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. And these countries used to have different names for towns a long time ago.
For example, let's take a town called "Vienna". In German, they used to call it "Wien". And if you go even further back in time, they used to call it "Vindobona".
So, these German names for towns are like special nicknames that they used to call them way back when. And people still use them today because it's a way to remember their history and traditions.