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The presence and motivation of indigenous place names the streets of Dourados/MS

open access: yesArReDia, 2016
Given the significant presence of indigenous groups in the municipality of Dourados/MS, this research aimed to determine to what extent it is possible to find aspects of the indigenous culture in the street names of the urban area of the municipality ...
Denise Velasco, Marilze Tavares
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Головні вектори мотивів номінації сучасних урбонімів Києва та Скоп'є у світлі зіставного аналізу

open access: yesActa Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Slavica Wratislaviensia
The article analyzes the urban toponymy of Kyiv and Skopje from the perspective of the motivational principles underlying the formation of urban place names.
Oleh Beley
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URBAN TOPONYMY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY: A CASE OF LAW-ENFORCED DECOMMUNIZATION OF STREET NAMES IN POLAND

open access: yesLege artis Language yesterday today tomorrow, 2019
In April 2016, the Polish Parliament passed a law on decommunization. Its objective was to eliminate from Polish public space the names commemorating communism. The paper discusses the names, which were earmarked for change and presents means of implementing these changes.
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Labels of regional integration: The case of naming in polycentric urban regions

open access: yesMoravian Geographical Reports
A main challenge in the planning and management of polycentric urban regions (PUR) is achieving functional coherence between their main centers. In this study, we approach the region’s name as an implicit indicator of such integration and examine the ...
Wysocka-Niemiec Donata   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Toponymy as Flood Memory: Analyzing Water-Related Place Names in Jakarta, Indonesia

open access: yesForum for Linguistic Studies
Jakarta, Indonesia’s flood-prone capital, bears a hydrological legacy embedded in its place names (toponyms). This study examines how urban village toponyms reflect historical water-related landscapes and their implications for contemporary flood risk.
Asep Mulyadi   +6 more
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Toponymy of Water Elements as Linguistic and Cultural Identity of Kupang City Community [PDF]

open access: yes
  Indonesia as an archipelagic country with an extraordinary diversity of languages, provides a very fertile toponymy research field. The purpose of this study is to examine the toponymy of urban villages containing water elements in Kupang City ...
Datang, Frans Asisi, Horo, Fredrikson
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Potential of deep learning segmentation for the extraction of archaeological features from historical map series. [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeol Prospect, 2021
Garcia-Molsosa A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Musici non grati in Croatian Urban Toponymy After the Establishment of Independence

open access: yes, 2023
As a permanent reminder of the contribution of musicians, a street or a square can be named after them, while the most significant contribution to preserving the memory of a musician is the installation of a monument in their honour. At the same time, it should be noted that every memorial, apart from the person in whose honour it was erected, also ...
openaire   +1 more source

Illuminated border: Spatiotemporal analysis of COVID-19 pressure in the Sino-Burma border from the perspective of nighttime light. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Appl Earth Obs Geoinf, 2022
Zhao F   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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