Toponymy and toponomastics are very significant branches of etymology and the onomastic sciences in general. They are interdisciplinary in nature, associating, among others, historical linguistics ...

The history of Sassari retraced through the streets and their names, the changes in toponymy. The historian Enrico Costa tells of a city that between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...

This failure of ours to promptly provide names to significant features of our undersea landmass and our tepid plan to provide less meaningful biological names are reflective of our lack of place-name ...

The symbolic violence of this supremacist desire to return to a toponymy of European origin is also evident in the new president's announcement of his intention to reverse the renaming of Mount ...

He told TOI that toponymy is the study of place names, their origins, meanings, use and typology. He said toponymy can be applied while preparing signboards in major cities and towns as they help ...

1 / 5 | Many people living in this city call it “Chatigaon”. The Portuguese called it the “Grand Harbour of Bengal”. Ibn Battuta called it “Sadkawan”. Its current name is derived from ...

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