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Pristine Toponymy and Embedded Placenames on Islands
Names, 2012 Pristine placenaming or pristine toponymy is a concept first put forward by : 333). Ross considers a toponym pristine ‘if, and only if, we are cognisant of the actual act of its creation.’ This paper redefines and extends Ross’s definition of pristine ...
Joshua Nash
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Revisiting the Standardization of the Use of the Letter ё in Russian Toponymy [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2018 The paper deals with the standardization of the use of the letter ё in the official toponymy of Russia. A long-term monitoring of the toponymic data presented in the State catalogue of geographical names revealed that the use/non-use of the letter ё is a
Igor A. Dambuev
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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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Names, 2023 The goal of this research was to examine the linguistic properties of Western Ukraine’s toponymy as presented on Austrian, interwar-Polish, and Soviet topographic maps from the late 18th century to the 1980s.
Wojciech Włoskowicz
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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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Discovering Unwritten Stories—A Modular Case Study in Promoting Landscape Education
Education Sciences, 2021 Landscapes have been and are an important aspect of any society, culture, economy and environment. Besides the role of landscape and Landscape Sciences in these arenas, there have been increasingly greater calls to incorporate landscape into the ...
Shaun Tyan Gin Lim +1 more
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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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Critical Toponymy: Creating Prestigious Spaces Through Using Urban Names
Megaron, 2019 Place names are important for memory and identity and were researched by many kind of social sciences as history, anthropology, human geography, linguistic.
Reycan Çetin, Aylin Şentürk
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Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 534-541, July 2025.ABSTRACT Just over 100 years after Katherine Routledge's 1921–1922 expedition to the Mangareva Islands, digitized copies of a portion of her field notes from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London were returned to the source community in French Polynesia.
James L. Flexner +2 more
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