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Folk Toponymy and Offshore Fishing Ground Names on the Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia [PDF]

Island Studies Journal, 2010
This paper analyses data on two aspects of unofficial place-naming or folk toponymy on the Dudley Peninsula, the eastern peninsula of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, namely (1) local unofficial toponyms, and (2) offshore fishing ground names.
Joshua Nash
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Toponymy in Missouri

Names, 2001
Donald M. Lance
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A New Study on Karelian Toponymy. Review of: Afanasyeva, A. A. (2022). Toponimija Sjamozer’ja v areale karel’skogo dialektnogo pogranich’ja [Place Names of the Lake Syamozero in the Area of the Karelian Dialect Borderland] (Doctoral dissertation). Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saransk. 235 p.

Вопросы ономастики, 2023
The review examines the PhD thesis Toponymy of the Syamozerye in the area of the Karelian dialect borderland by A. Afanasyeva, based on rich factual material collected by the author during field research.
Lyudmila Je. Kirillova
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Euskera, language of the Pyrenees: The case of Ansó (Aragon) and Roncal (Navarre)

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2008
The valleys of Ansó and Roncal are located in a multilingual enclave in which, in addition to the presence of Aragonese and Euskera, Gascon is also much in evidence in its Béarnaise variety. The Ansó Valley joins the Roncal Valley at this point in the
Juan Karlos Lopez-Mugartza Iriarte
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Proper Names as an Ethnocultural Text: Nogai Place Names as Determinants of Ethnic Memory

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2023
The toponymy of any region contains information about the most important stages in the history of the material and spiritual culture of the people, behind each geographical name there is a historical reality.
Mariia Bulgarova
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История освоения карельского Поморья (в свете языковых данных) [On the Historical Settlement of the Karelian Littoral of the White Sea (based on linguistic data)]; pp. 179-194 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2016
The article focuses on the toponymy of the western coast of the White Sea. ­Linguistic analysis allows us to conclude that for many centuries the territory has been an area of interethnic communication, traces of which can still be seen in the language ...
Denis Kuźmin
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Local History Literacy based Toponymy in Singaraja City [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
Toponymy, as a cultural and historical marker, reflects the collective memory of a community and serves as a valuable source for understanding the socio-historical dynamics of a region.
Maryati Tuty, Putu Sri Ariyani Luh, Sulistia Rahayuni Luh, Astri Sulfiah Putri Siti   +3 more
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Une approche synchronique de la toponymie mauricienne

Études Créoles, 2022
This paper examines the toponyms of Mauritius through the lens of a synchronic approach which is based on the syntactical, lexical and referential analysis of place names.
Yannick Bosquet
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THE DIALOGUE OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN BASQUE PLACE NAMES

Ибероамериканские тетради, 2016
Presently, Basque toponymy comes out as the result of a dialogue between cultures and languages inside the original territory of Basqueland, as well as the result of a dialogue with the regions historically tied to Euskadi.
OLGA S. Chesnokova, PEDRO LEONARDO Talavera-Ibarra   +1 more
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Toponymy and the City, the Past and the Future

Проект Байкал, 2015
The article reviews and analyses the concepts of toponymy, basing on the exchange of ideas between the members of the Toponymy Council and the Editorial Board of the journal. The names of the new urban entities of Irkutsk are proposed.
Marina Tkacheva
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