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An individual’s name bears the marks from one’s regional geography, history, beliefs and parents’ worldviews. Endeavours towards an examination of individual names in a community are very important in constructing the cultural map of that community and ...
Fevzi Karademir
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Vocabulary of Rural Life of Bessarabian Germans in Danube Region (1814/1940) in Accident Reports
This article analyzes accident reports in the German colonies of Bessarabia (1814/1940), dated to the second half of the 19th century. The object of study is the problem of the relationship between language and culture, which is displayed in the ...
Natalia Golovina
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Microtoponymy of the Village of Abramovka, Talovsky District, Voronezh Region [PDF]
The paper considers the microtoponymy of the village of Abramovka, Talovsky district, Voronezh Region. The analysis of rural microtoponymic naming peculiarities is based on upstream research of Russian linguists, including representatives of the Voronezh
Lyudmila N. Verkhovykh
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Abstract This article widens the focus of the debate around multilingualism in early modern Europe. Using the life‐writing of a scholar, traveller and Protestant minister from the Scottish Highlands, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709), it provides a North Sea perspective on the theme. The article sheds light on how Fraser and his locale (the ‘firthlands’ of
David Worthington
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Summary One of the most prolific areas of agrarian production of the Roman Empire was the Guadalquivir valley of Hispania Baetica. The current study was carried out in the region downstream from Corduba (Córdoba), the capital of Baetica. Knowledge of amphorae from this zone, often underrepresented at consumption sites, has in recent times undergone a ...
Iván González Tobar
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Carcassonne G 6, preserving a judicial oath from 833, is an exceptional source for the history of the Spanish March and more generally the workings of power in the Carolingian world. The oath, concerning at first glance a very local dispute, links a body of royal charters with the precepts for the hispani issued by Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and ...
Christoph Haack, Thomas Kohl
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Abstract Objective To explore the sociodemographic characteristics that might explain the increased incidence of psychosis among immigrants and their descendants in France. Methods Data were collected for all subjects with first contact for psychosis aged between 18 and 64 years, in two catchment areas in the Paris region.
Andrea Tortelli +9 more
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Tambov ergonyms dating back to the word “wolf”
We are making an attempt to establish the producing base of Tambov ergonyms, including the phrase “Tambov wolf”. We establish that the ergonym nomination is based on the katoikonym “Tambov wolves”.
M. S. Dzyuba
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Remembering the Vikings: Violence, institutional memory and the instruments of history
Abstract The Vikings maintain a fearsome and violent reputation to this day. This perspective on vikings was shaped by monastic chroniclers and dynastic propaganda. But are vikings the victims of history because their history has been written by their victims? Viking violence has been contextualised using comparative history but also as the result of a
Caitlin Ellis
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THE SCIENTIFIC BRANCH «REGIONAL LEXICOLOGY, LEXICOGRAPHY, ONOMASTICS» AT PERM UNIVERSITY
Elena N. Polyakova +2 more
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