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Mermaid-As-Device: Toponymy, Language and Linguistics
Nearing the end of my editorial to the thematic section on island toponymies in Island Studies Journal v11 n2 (Nash 2016a, b), I asked: do island toponymies really exist?
Nash, Joshua
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On the old archive of the Lăpușna County Court and on its 2345 documents from the 15th–19th centuries [PDF]
On July 10, 1926, the First-President of the Lăpușna Court, judge Eugen Ionescu-Dârzeu and the regional manager of the Romanian Archives, L. T. Boga, signed the acceptance protocol for the old archive of the Lăpușna Court, which comprised around 2,345 ...
Petronel Zahariuc
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U radu se obrađuje 220 toponimskih različnica potvrđenih u naselju Gradac. Iako se rad temelji na rezultatima dosadašnjih istraživanja, prvi se put gračka toponimija donosi zasebno, stavlja u širi povijesni kontekst te obogaćuje s 43 nova toponima ...
Andrijašević, Ivana
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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]
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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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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This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Island Narratives in the Making of Japan: The Kojiki in Geocultural Context
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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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
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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Like other areas of linguistic study, toponymy as a domain of analysis does not present itself as being overly reflective of its own assumptions. I ask whether a sub-category or sub-analysis dedicated to toponymy is required at all if we analyse toponyms,
Nash, Joshua
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U ovome se radu onomastički istražuje lička povijesna i suvremena toponimija. Riječ je o korpusu od 4409 toponima, i to u prvome redu ojkonima, hidronima, oronima i speleonima koji su ekscerpirani iz povijesnih i suvremenih zemljovida te povijesnih i ...
Mataija, Ivica
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