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Russian Social and Humanitarian StudiesBackground. The article presents a lexical and semantic analysis of the toponymy of the Mordovian village Teshnyar in the Sosnovoborsky district of the Penza region and its environs.
Nikolay V. Belenov
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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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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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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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The Role of Anthroponymic Commemoration on Wine Labels in South Africa
Names, 2017 South Africa is a prominent wine-producing country. The focus in this contribution will be on anthroponymic commemoration whereby a name of a person, singular or plural, and of both genders, is selected for a particular wine in South Africa.
Bertie Neethling
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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city
City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 78-90, August 2024.Abstract Anyone who has lived in a city knows that, separately from the administrative or electoral districts, there are districts that exist in the imagination. Areas of the city seem to have a distinctive character and ethos. The article suggests that such notional place‐forming occurs spontaneously through everyday sensations, life activities, and ...
Caroline Humphrey
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Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные наукиImportance. The activities of Tambov city authorities, public organizations and institutions, their motives in working to preserve military-historical memory in the urban environment during the second half of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries ...
S. S. Kvadiaev
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The role of toponymy in neoliberal urbanization, case study: İncek, Ankara
, 2021 Cataloged from PDF version of article.
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 320-334, May/June 2024.Abstract The Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo (Panama) comprises a protected area of 28 km2 within present‐day Panama City, on America's Pacific coast. In 1519, the Spaniards founded the city of Panama Viejo to secure a natural port in an area inhabited by indigenous peoples since at least the eighth century CE.
Miriam Martos +2 more
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[Ein schön Cantzleysch Tittelbuch inn reden und schreybenn nach Rettorischer ardt ...]
[by Urban Wyss]Vom Schreibmeister und Holzschneider Urban Wyss im Blockdruck hergestelltes ...
Wyss, Urban
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