- of
toponyms (proper
names of places, also
known as
place names and
geographic names),
including their origins, meanings, usage, and types.
Toponym is...
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- and 3rd
century AD,
including Adiabene, Osroene, and Hatra. The
regional toponym Mesopotamia (/ˌmɛsəpəˈteɪmiə/,
Ancient Gr****: Μεσοποταμία '[land] between...
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never involved in Gr****
history or culture. Αlthough this list
includes toponyms from
Roman times, this list does not
include later wholly Latin-derived...
- In
geographic information systems,
toponym resolution is the
relationship process between a
toponym, i.e. the
mention of a place, and an
unambiguous spatial...
- Dob is a
Slovene toponym,
found in Slovenia,
Austria and Italy. It
derives from a Proto-Slavic word dǫbъ (oak). The word dob is
today used exclusively...
- The
toponym "Azerbaijan" has been the
object of a
naming controversy since 1918
between the
region of
Azerbaijan in Iran and the
Republic of Azerbaijan...
- Gold
Mountain (Cantonese: Gāmsāan, 金山) is a
historical name for
either San Francisco, the
State of California, or
broadly the
western regions of North...
- A lost
toponym is a name
given to a
place which is no
longer known or identifiable. For example, in 1618 the crew of the
Mauritius explored a
river in...
- This 1562 map
Americae Sive
Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et
Exactissima Descriptio by
Diego Gutiérrez was the
first map to
print the
toponym California....
