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Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 69, Issue 1, Spring / printemps 2025.Abstract North America is characterized by an expansive continental plain that has been described as platter‐flat. Yet this central continental plain includes isolated uplands that some people call mountains. The hill‐mountain muddle is a classic problem of geomorphology, arising from the challenge of discriminating continuous, attached forms.
Murray M. Humphries +3 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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First National Scientific Congress on Geographical Names, Zadar and Krapanj, October 23 and 24, 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 For the first time in Croatia, the University of Zadar and the Croatian Geographic Society organized a national conference on geographical names. The conference had a series of scientific and professional lectures at the ceremonial hall of the University
Martina Triplat Horvat, Robert Župan
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Dynamique de la construction topographique et toponymique à l'aven d'Orgnac. Ardèche, France [PDF]
, 2012 In August 1935, Robert de Joly and his fellows discovered and explored the Orgnac pot hole. In the following weeks, a first survey (plan and section) is published in Spelunca and in La Nature with a toponymy applied to the most remarkable speleothems and
Gauchon, Christophe +2 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 6, Page 1490-1504, November 2024.Debates about the impacts of human settlement on Madagascar's habitat have missed the Malagasy perspective. Using indigenous and local knowledge in the form of toponyms, we find many regions across today's treeless grasslands are named after forest/trees, suggesting they may be novel.
Grant S. Joseph +4 more
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The Etymology of the Toponym “Pourgoundi” (Notes on Medieval Nubian Toponymy 5) [PDF]
, 2017 The toponym ⲡⲟⲩⲣⲅⲟⲩⲛⲇⲓ was first recorded in a Greek–Old Nubian graffito on a wall of the Church of the Archangel Raphael in Tamit,
Vincent van Gerven Oei
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Sense of Place in Latin America: Mobilities, Territorialities, and Fear
Geography Compass, Volume 18, Issue 10, October 2024.ABSTRACT Sense of place has become relevant in Latin America in recent decades. Although many scholars have looked at people‐place relationships there, language barriers have limited the international exposure of these studies. By assembling a collection of works mainly published in Spanish and Portuguese, we trace the fields of research where the ...
Adrián Ortega‐Iturriaga +3 more
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Russian Language Studies, 2011 The article reviews toponymy of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. Analysis of this part of Canadian toponymy helps specify the role of geographical names in the formation of linguistic world view of the Canadians and obtain linguistic and ...
A U Ilyina
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Identidad céltica de Galicia. Toponimia comparada del gaélico-irlandés y el gallego [PDF]
, 2012 [Resumo] En este estudio se va a considerar la hipótesis de que Galicia pueda haber tenido un contacto lingüístico y cultural pre-cristiano con Irlanda como afirma el Leabhor Ghabála Eireann –El Libro de las Invasiones de Irlanda–.
O' Reilly Vázquez, Mónica
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Metaphoric names in Bulgarian oronymy
Folia Onomastica Croatica, 2001 The paper analyses a group od Bulgarian metaphorically motivated placenames, especially those derived from terms for human (head, nose, leg etc.) or animal (wing, horn, beak, hoof etc.) body parts.
Ljiljana Dimitrova-Todorova
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