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Historical geographies of place naming: Colonial practices and beyond
Geography Compass, Volume 17, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 Abstract European colonialism sought to inscribe order and meaning on non‐European landscapes through the process of place naming. Naming or renaming was fundamental to the extension of imperial control over physical and human environments. This article offers a brief overview of the ways critical place name studies has addressed these colonial ...
Beth Williamson
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Towards a trans‐regional approach to early medieval Iberia
History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The past few decades have witnessed great change in the study of the early Middle Ages in the Northern Iberian Peninsula. Spanish and Portuguese historiographies have moved away from older grand narratives such as ‘Reconquest and Repopulation’, which traced a centuries‐long process encompassing the ultimate victory of Christianity over Islam ...
Álvaro Carvajal Castro +11 more
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Urban identity and the image of the city in the communicative paradigm of toponymy
World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2021 The scientific article is devoted to the consideration of the correlations of urban identity and the image of the city as an important symbolic aspect of such identity and urban toponymy. It is determined that the city dweller, constructing his own urban space, acquiring the status of a place, actualizes the images of "his city" (due to subjective ...
Anna Kuznetsova, Irina Petrulevich
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Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2023 Tarihin eski çağlarından bu yana yaşadığı mekânı isimlendiren insanoğlu, bu işlemi yaparken dönemsel, kültürel, coğrafi unsurlar gibi birçok faktörü göz önünde bulundurmuştur.
Ahmet Emrah Siyavuş
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Multicultural Features in Scandinavian Toponymy
, 2021 In central parts of Scandinavia, place names are basically always formed from linguistic elements of Scandinavian origin. In bilingual Finland, names are of Finnish or Swedish origin. There are, however, exceptions to this uniform picture.
Staffan Nyström, Nyström, Staffan,
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Toponymic Landscape of Shadrinsk in Aspect of Regional and Local Identity: A Sociolinguistic Study
Научный диалог, 2023 This article addresses the issue of representing regional and local identity in urban toponymy. Based on a sociological interpretation of the phenomenon of territorial identity in an urban environment, the authors aim to identify how residents perceive ...
M. V. Golomidova, S. O. Goryaev
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Forest and firewood in the kingdom of Valencia in the medieval centuries (XIII-XV)
Estudios de Historia de España, 2020 We carry out an edaphological and historical analysis of the forest and its predominant species in the old Kingdom of Valencia between the XIII-XV centuries. It’s operation was carefully regulated by the royal, stately and municipal authorities, to avoid
José Hinojosa Montalvo
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Belgeo, 2010 This article looks into the names given by public authorities to underground stations in Brussels. If naming places can reflect political and ideological choices, naming underground stations supposes first of all helping travellers find their way within ...
Frédéric Dobruszkes
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What is the gender of a city? Odonyms and spatial genderization: An example of the City of Novi Sad [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2020 Observing the city as a system of signs - the names of streets, monuments, architectural elements and entities through which the state and other institutions of power reflect the desired social narratives, including gendered reading of the ...
Jakovljević-Šević Tijana
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A toponymy of American summer camps: Onscreen stereotypes or symbols ripe for change?
, 2022 The Journal of American Culture, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 139-154, June 2022.
Alexia Franzidis +2 more
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