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The Etymology of the Toponym "Dorginarti" (Notes on Medieval Nubian Toponymy 6) [PDF]
, 2017 The island of Dorginarti is situated south of Buhen in Northern Su- dan and has now been completely submerged in Lake ...
Alexandros Tsakos +1 more
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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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Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania [PDF]
, 2014 The critical study of toponymy has paid considerable attention to the renaming of urban places following revolutionary political change. Such renaming is intended to institutionalize a new political agenda through shaping the meanings in everyday ...
Alderman D. +29 more
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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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La toponymie de l'Ile d'Orléans [PDF]
, 1962 The writer situates the Island of Orleans and briefly describes its physiography and history of settlement. The toponymy imposed during the early French regime (toponymie primitive)is described —with a few notable exceptions {Orléans, Argentenay ...
Poirier, Jean
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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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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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