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The Maltese Toponomy in three ancient Italian portulans (1296–1490) [PDF]
Al-Masāq, 1992 The earliest known detailed description of the Maltese Islands is Johannes Quintinus Haeduus' Insulae Melitae Descriptio published in Lyons in 1536. "Although several Classical authors and a few medieval writers and travellers had already referred to Malta in their works and journeys.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1041-1059, December 2025.Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
History, Volume 110, Issue 393, Page 588-605, December 2025.Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2004 There are many important factors which make the town of Tursi an exceptional case in the pattern of human settlements in Basilicata: to begin with, it was the Capital of Leukanía, the third Byzantine thema of the Catepanate of Italy; then, it acquired a ...
Cosimo Damiano Fonseca
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Obstacles to the touristification of historical borders
The Geographical Journal, Volume 191, Issue 4, December 2025.Short Abstract This article explores the challenges of commodifying historical boundaries in tourism, focusing on the Czech lands' Bohemian‐Moravian boundary. It introduces a distinction between relict and phantom borders and analyses local perceptions through a survey of 454 residents.
Petr Marek
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Urumeako zilegimendietako toponimia: zenbait ohar [PDF]
Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 2011 Artikuluaren mintzagaia Urumeako zilegimendietako toponimia doktorego tesia da. Ikerlan horretan aztertzen den lurraldea Gipuzkoako ipar-sortaldean dago. Donostia, Hernani eta Urnietako zenbait aurkintzak osatzen dute eta 38 km2 ditu.
Luis Mari Zaldua
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Meydanlardaki İsim Değişikliklerinin Kent Belleğine Etkisi: Ankara Örneği
Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2017 ÖZETKentsel kimlik, kentlerin kendilerine özgün değerlerinden oluştuğu için, kentlinin kent ile farklı etkileşimlerle bulunup yaşanmışlıkları arttırmasına, kent parçasını anılar üzerinden hatırlayarak, mekanı belli sembollerle anımsamasına ve bu sayede ...
Selin Turan, Özge Yalçıner Ercoşkun
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Madagascar's grassy biomes, from Holocene to Anthropocene
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1555-1558, November 2025.Madagascar's grassy biomes cover 80% of the island and are central to Malagasy history, culture and ecology. The research community continues to debate the extent to which these biomes are ancient ecosystems or products of human‐driven deforestation and the implications for ecosystem management.
Jan Hackel +5 more
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Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2016 Book review of: Kristjan Ahronson, Into the Ocean. Vikings, Irish, and Environmental Change in Iceland and the North, (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2015), pp. 264, ISBN 9781442646179.
Viviana Tagliaferri
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A pre-indo-European place-name: Dalmatia
Linguistica, 1988 Two years ago 1 ventured to suggest another etymon ofthe place name (hereafter PN) Ardeal, the Romanian form for Transylvania and, connected to this, 1 also explained the PN Dalmatia (Paliga 1986). 1 shall not rediscuss the whole topic, yet it is useful
Sorin Paliga
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