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Place Names of Brazil : Research, Reflections and Important Aspects [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2006 Place names are testimonies of culture settlement and occupation of a territory. The historical study of the toponimy, which the term geonimy will be associated from now, allows establishing the genealogy of human occupation, as well as showing an ...
Paulo Márcio Leal de Menezes +1 more
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GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES IN THE WORLD
Scientia Militaria, 2012 (ADDRESS DELIVERED AT FIRST MILITARY NAMES CONGRESS HELD AT FORT KLAPPERKOP ON 30 OCTOBER 1992) A geographical name, sometimes also called a place name or toponym, is the name of any portion of the Earth that has a recognizable identity.
Peter E. Raper
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Transformation of Udmurt Geographical Names
Научный диалог, 2018 The ways of transfer into Russian language of Udmurt place names, mainly the names of settlements of the Udmurt Republic and adjacent territories where the Udmurt people live are considered.
L. E. Kirillova, M. A. Samarova
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An English-Chinese Machine Translation and Evaluation Method for Geographical Names
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 In recent years, with increasing international communication and cooperation, the consensus of toponymic information among different countries has become increasingly important.
Hongkai Ren +4 more
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Visszaemlékezés a Földrajzinév-bizottság helyesírás-szabályozási és földrajzinévtár-készítési munkásságára [PDF]
, 2013 Remembering the activity of the Hungarian Committee on Geographical Names: regulation of orthography and compilation of gazetteers The author of the present paper, a cartographer, studies the questions of geographical names for the correct ...
Márton, Mátyás
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Names of Historical Geographical Places and Articles Used with Them
Communications, 2007 The paper analyses the use of articles with the names of historical geographical places and related issues (focused on prehistoric and ancient times) in the English language. The paper is divided into three parts.
Marta Kadorova, Zuzana Ondrackova
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Towns conquer: a gamified application to collect geographical names (vernacular names/toponyms) [PDF]
, 2013 The traditional model for geospatial crowd sourcing asks the public to use their free time collecting geospatial data for no obvious reward. This model has shown to work very well on projects such as Open Street Map, but comes with some clear ...
Brown, Michael +3 more
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Földrajzi nevek a közigazgatásban
Névtani Értesítő, 2016 Geographical names in public administration The paper reviews the areas in which public administration plays or should play a role in the formation, registration or the appropriate use of geographical names, mentioning the relevant legal ...
Gábor Mikesy
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Hispanic place names of Uruguay in the context of linguopragmatics
Domínios de Lingu@gem, 2021 The article contributes to the identification and linguistic analysis of the Hispanic toponymic units of Uruguay, and presents the first attempt to classify them.
Irina Martynenko
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Geographic names and domain names [PDF]
Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, 2014 Review of Heather Ann Forrest, Protection of Geographic Names in International Law and Domain Name System Policy (2013, Wolters Kluwer) 339 pages including bibliography, tables and diagrams.
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