Commemorative cityscapes: spatio-temporal patterns in street names in Leipzig, East Germany and Poznań, Poland [PDF]
, 2023 This article contributes to research on commemorative naming strategies by presenting a comparative longitudinal study on changes in the urban toponymy of Leipzig (Germany) and Poznań (Poland) over a period of 102 years.
Dobkiewicz, Patryk +4 more
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Heritage, 2022 This article traces the history of the medieval oasis city of Sijilmassa, southeastern Morocco, and that of its modern, continuation city of metropolitan Rissani in the Tafilalt region.
Liora Bigon, Edna Langenthal
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Toponymy as Commodity: Exploring the Economic Dimensions of Urban Place Names. [PDF]
, 2014 In recent years the study of urban toponymy (place names) has been revitalized by the emergence of a ‘critical toponymies’ approach. This focuses on the cultural politics of place naming and the decisions involved in attributing names to the urban ...
Light, D +3 more
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“Under the Shadow of the Dog” – A New Monograph about the Golden Horde and Its Presence in the Balkans (Book Review: Aleksandar Uzelac. Pod Senkom psa. Tatari i južnoslovenske zemlje u drugoj polovini XIII veka [Under the Shadow of the Dog. Tatars and South Slavic Lands in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century]. Belgrade, Utopija Publ., 2015. 324 p.+ 12 p. with color illustrations). [PDF]
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2017 The article offers a critical review of the book of Serbian historian Aleksandar Uzelac, dedicated to the analysis of the relations between the Golden Horde and the Medieval Balkan Slavic states – Bulgaria and Serbia in the second half of the thirteenth ...
Dejan Radičević
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Island Narratives in the Making of Japan: The Kojiki in Geocultural Context
Island Studies Journal, 2021 Shintō, the national religion of Japan, is grounded in the mythological narratives that are found in the 8th-Century chronicle, Kojiki 古事記 (712). Within this early source book of Japanese history, myth, and national origins, there are many accounts of ...
Henry Johnson
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'What's in a name? Place Branding and Toponymic Commodification' [PDF]
, 2014 If places are increasingly regarded as brands in both the practice of place marketing and its associated theory, then the study of place names (toponymy) arguably overlaps with theories and concepts involving brand naming within the marketing literature.
Warnaby, G. +3 more
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Una «vida» per due trovatori: Arnaut de Tintinhac e Peire de Valeria
Carte Romanze, 2015 Il saggio presenta una nuova edizione critica delle tre poesie attribuite dagli studiosi ad Arnaut de Tintinhac, preceduta da un’ampia introduzione. Dallo studio della tradizione manoscritta dei testi, delle attribuzioni contrastanti, della toponomastica
Riccardo Viel
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-33, February 2026.Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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Street-naming and the Subjectivity of Taiwan: A Case Study of Taipei City
Asian Studies, 2011 Taiwan has been ruled by a variety of political regimes and the different ruling elites have used Taiwan’s place names to shape their symbolic landscape.
Wenchuan Huang
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Redai diliAs the spatial mnemonics of human civilization, place names transcend their basic function as geographical identifiers to embody historical narratives, cultural genes, and societal values. Within the contemporary context of globalization and urbanization,
Xiaomei Ji
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