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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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U ovome se radu onomastički istražuje lička povijesna i suvremena toponimija. Riječ je o korpusu od 4409 toponima, i to u prvome redu ojkonima, hidronima, oronima i speleonima koji su ekscerpirani iz povijesnih i suvremenih zemljovida te povijesnih i ...
Mataija, Ivica
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ABSTRACT Mongolia's Eastern and Western Gobi Basins preserve a globally significant record of Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrates, yet their biostratigraphic correlations are complicated by a complex geological history. The Eastern Gobi Basin, a northeast‐southwest trending fault‐bounded rift system, includes several minor sub‐basins with distinct ...
Ryan T. Tucker +9 more
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Pisidian toponymy: Method and results
International audienceThis paper focuses on Pisidian toponymy and ethnonymy and the persistence of Anatolian languages in the toponymy of the region. Toponymy and ethnonymy tell us much about territorial control of individual settlements, whether they be
Locatelli, Lauriane
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Revisiting the Standardization of the Use of the Letter ё in Russian Toponymy [PDF]
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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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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Background. The article presents a lexical and semantic analysis of the toponymy of the Mordovian village Teshnyar in the Sosnovoborsky district of the Penza region and its environs.
Nikolay V. Belenov
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
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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Obstacles to the touristification of historical borders
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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Madagascar's grassy biomes, from Holocene to Anthropocene
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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