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Античная древность и средние векаThis article addresses the use of the toponym Tauris (French Tauride, Russian Таврида) in the sources from the Classical, Byzantine, and Modern Periods. Today’s mind inseparably associates the Tauris with the Crimea.
Nikita Igorevich Khrapunov
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On the origin of toponym Rajgród
LingVariaON THE ORIGIN OF THE TOPONYM RAJGRÓD The article focuses on the etymological analysis of the place-name Pol. Rajgród ‘a town in Grajewo County, Podlaskie Voivodeship’. It has been stated that the stronghold known as the “Castle Hill” in Rajgród was founded by Yotvingians.
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A Note on the ‘toponym’ R Package
NamesIn this note, we describe how to install and use the ‘toponym’ R package, which is designed for mapping and manipulating toponymic data from the GeoNames database.
Lennart Chevallier, Søren Wichmann
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Uaxactun Emblem Glyph: the evolution of the Classic Maya royal title
RUDN Journal of World HistoryThe research of Uaxactun monuments (Peten, Guatemala) in 2000s made it possible to reconstruct the dynastic history of this Classic Maya political center (300-900).
Alexander V. Safronov
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Mapping place names for small-scale fisheries evaluation
Aquatic Living ResourcesFishers’ spatial knowledge encompasses a diverse array of social, ecological, technical, experiential, and learning knowledge derived from local environmental and sociocultural contexts.
Randriatsara Roddy M. +5 more
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Toponym-assisted map georeferencing: Evaluating the use of toponyms for the digitization of map collections. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Bahgat K, Runfola D.
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“TOPONYM” conditions in dermatology
Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, 2021 Seetharampura Ramamurthy, Radhika +3 more
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Toponym disambiguation in historical documents using semantic and geographic features
, 2017 Historians are often interested in the locations mentioned in digitized collections. However, place names are highly ambiguous and may change over time, which makes it especially hard to automatically ground mentions of places in historical texts to ...
Sporleder, Caroline +3 more
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Citizen science characterization of meanings of toponyms of Kenya: a shared heritage. [PDF]
GeoJournal, 2023 Daniel N, Mátyás G.
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Characterization of toponym usages in texts
, 2014 Toponyms in texts and search queries are often used figuratively and do not directly refer to the locations they reference in their literal sense. Different usage kinds and stylistic devices characterize toponym usages in texts.
Henrich, Andreas +5 more
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