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Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2020 This work discusses Slovenian geographical names: endonyms in Slovenia and in border areas inhabited by Slovenians in neighboring countries, and Slovenian exonyms used in Slovenian to describe geographical features outside the Slovenian settlement area ...
Drago Kladnik +2 more
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A történeti személynévföldrajz mint a nyelvföldrajz egyik kutatási területe I. [PDF]
Névtani Értesítő, 2014 The geography of historical personal names as a research area of Geolinguistics I. Name geographic methods in name studies Spatial distribution of proper names – similarly to that of common nouns – is a natural consequence of language change ...
János N. Fodor
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The Scientific, Folk, and Armchair Etymology of City Names (Based on the Names of the Cities in the Republic of Kazakhstan) [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The etymology of toponyms has long become a favored subject of research and a matter of public curiosity. Geographical names are a mine of information about the history of an object, its location, distinctive features, significant cultural and political ...
Gulmira B. Madieva +2 more
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Essential nuances of translation English proper names in the process of learning a foreign language
Вестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Психолого-педагогические науки, 2020 The research is relevant because it is related to the practical aspects of teaching a foreign language to non-linguistic. The change of the words meaning is one of the most common problems, since it requires not only the understanding of the semantic ...
Ekaterina A. Pertsevaya
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Map labeling with the International Phonetic Alphabet: the example of the Middle East
Journal of Maps, 2021 The main aim of the study presented in this paper was to apply a new method to the creation of map typography. We focused on the original pronunciations of geographical names (endonyms), which is viewed as one of the important attributes of geographical ...
Radek Dušek, Renata Popelková
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Reviewing and criticizing the opinions and arguments of Arab and Iranian historians about the name of the Persian Gulf [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2022 Based on historical and contemporary maps as well as historical and geographical Greek, Latin, Arabic and Persian texts, the name "Persia" has been used throughout history to refer to the southern sea of Iran.
Alireza Kachuei, Yaser Qazvini Haeri
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Nusrat Abad Espi Darband Sistan [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2021 Research in geographical names or "toponymy" research and the study of the reasons for naming places reveal different angles of a period of historical monuments for historians as well as geographers. Geographical names can be considered as living history
Maryam Ebrahimi
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InterCarto. InterGIS, 2014 This article provides the information about the problems of a demographic situation in regions oft he Volga Federal District, leading to the reduction of the population and her decrease in economic activity and it’s not in the economic interest of ...
P. I. Merkulov +4 more
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Geographical information retrieval with ontologies of place [PDF]
, 2001 Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical space only by means of place names.
A. Tversky +18 more
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Does Google serve as a model for using place names?
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 This paper examines the reliability of geographical names published on various internet platforms and seeks to improve the place-name content of internet maps.
Gábor Gercsák, Gábor Mikesy
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