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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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'Hence the name': Berwickshire parishes along the Anglo-Scottish Border as described in the Ordnance Survey Name Books [PDF]
, 2015 No abstract ...
Williamson, Eila
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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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The names of the town and villages of Gozo (Malta) [PDF]
, 2010 The Maltese islands have been dominated by various rulers who left an imprint on the life, customs, and language of the inhabitants. This is evident also in the toponymy of the archipelago.
Zammit Ciantar, Joe
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People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1382-1395, June 2025.Abstract In the face of global changes and the biodiversity crisis, Local Ecological Knowledge of Indigenous communities is increasingly valued for aligning conservation policies with the needs of local communities and enriching conservation strategies through the synergy of diverse knowledge systems.
Opale Coutant +7 more
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BASQUE LANGUAGE AND BASQUE TOPONYMY: INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS AND STANDARTISATION
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 The Basque language (euskera) is an isolate language spoken by about one million people in northeast Spain and southwest France. According to the most common version about its origin the Basque language is of Aquitanian origin.
Olga S Chesnokova, Liana M Dzhishkariani
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Cartographie des anciens cours d’eau, lignes de creux et des bassins versants de l'île de Montréal [PDF]
, 2018 Guide et ses annexes à destination des utilisateurs des cartes relatives à la recherche "Cartographie des anciens cours d’eau, lignes de creux et des bassins versants de l'île de Montréal".
Mahaut, Valérie
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Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 345-374, April/June 2025.ABSTRACT This paper presents the interdisciplinary investigation (archaeology, geochemistry, history) of a medieval silver and lead production site located in southern France, in the Minier valley (Occitanie, Aveyron, Le‐Viala‐du‐Tarn). In order to identify the production sites, in situ geochemical surveys were carried out using a portable X‐ray ...
Céline Tomczyk +3 more
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