"The Land Remembers Everything":
The Man Who Preceded Modern Science by 500 Years
Eshtori HaParhi - 4 min read: www.facebook.com/share/p/1AsC...
And also on my Blog: nirtopper.com
#BiblicalGeography #Toponymy #EstoriHaParhi #Heritage #HolyLand #nir_topper #tourguide #history #israel #travel
Māori Place Name dictionary
Māori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins
by A.W. Reed, edited by Peter Dowling
also available as an e-book:
oratia.co.nz/product/maor...
#māori #Aotearoa #toponymy #NewZealand #place-names #pukapuka #geography #nzbooks @nzgeo.bsky.social @nationallibrarynz.bsky.social
Hey Ottawans 👋
Do you know where I can find the origin of your street names? I want to know the story behind “Data Centre Rd” and “Tremblay Rd”
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Yo les Ottaviens•iennes 👋
Savez-vous où je peux trouver l’origine de votre toponymie? Je veux connaître l’histoire derrière « ch. Data Centre » […]
Reminder: Call for papers 📢
Only a few weeks left to make your submission!
🔍The Social Life of Names and Naming Practices in the Context of Migration
📅 Deadline : 01/03/2026, details & submission: journals.openedition.org/remi/29912?l...
#REMI #Migration #Research #Toponymy
Rubha Aird an Lasgaich, West Ardnamurchan. Some geological cone sheet magnificence.
“Gaelic place-names are conveyors of response: tactile, descriptive, often visceral, encoding landforms, histories, and use.”
Discover more: www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/12...
Spiorad aird nam Murchan Pt.22
#GaelicCulture #Toponymy #Ardnamurchan
#ALIK #SAKHAROV
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#GERMAN #TOPONYMY
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Five cities in ancient Italy are said to have been founded by the Titan Saturn himself. Learn more about these cities and the mysteries which still enshroud them in today's Classics Tutor!
#lazio #latium #romanmythology #rome #toponymy
"A brilliant book for name nerds: full of quirks and facts."
New Zealand Place Names – Common, Contested and Curious Names from Aotearoa to Zalatown by Peter Dowling and A. W. Reed is N.5 this week at Unity Wellington.
#oratiabooks #NewZealandPlaceNames #toponymy
#Egypt's New Administrative Capital has rebranded itself as "The New Capital". Officially, #Cairo is no longer the country's capital, though some government bodies still operate from there. egyptianstreets.com/2025/11/09/e... #geography #toponymy #worldmap #rename #MiddleEast #Africa
🔥🇦🇿Azerbaijan threatens to rename Russian cities (e.g., Kaliningrad to Königsberg) if TASS doesn't correct Armenian toponyms for Azerbaijani cities. #Azerbaijan #Toponymy
Kazakhs usually name a place by its nature. An example of this in the photo: Egindikol district. literally a harvest lake. You can see a lot of harvs and a lake on the map😉
#Kazakhstan #NatureNames #Toponymy #CulturalGeography #PlaceNames #LinguisticHeritage #GeoTrivia #MapNerds #NatureCulture
from #MHG #smēken, to caress lovingly – whose root *smē- gives us #OldHighGerman #Schmer, fat or lard, modern #German #schmeicheln, to flatter – to English #smear and #Swedish #smör, or butter. And that's why we look so tasty.
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Toponymy #Toponüümia
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#ISO just updated its "country codes" list to spell "The Bahamas" with a capital T. www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:...
The change comes at request of country's govt, made to #UnitedNations in April 2025: unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/v...
#TheBahamas #Bahamas #toponymy #the #geography #spelling #names
A social media card from Cadernos de Linguística featuring a quote from an article by Cunha and Lourenço (2020). At the top, the text reads: "Read in Cadernos de Linguística". Below it are four green buttons labeled "Toponymy", "Territorial Memory", "Urban Identity", and "Indigenous Lexicon". The main quote says: "Naming places is a political and social act: names shape identities, forge symbolic connections between people and territory, and continue to influence how we live and experience a sense of belonging in urban spaces.” At the bottom, the citation: Cunha, E. L.; Lourenço, L., 2020. There is a minimalist corner icon with radiating lines in the lower-left.
Place names often outlive the languages from which they came.
This study shows how words from Indigenous Brazilian languages still define urban neighborhoods today — quietly preserving cultural memory.
📖 doi.org/10.25189/267...
#toponymy #languageandplace #langsky
Clearly, our work on #toponymy must have recently been used somewhere in linguistics, coz I've been receiving these review requests from linguistics journals.
Sorry guys, my expertise in that field is so totally absent that sometimes I can't even understand the abstract...
#postcolonialism #sociolinguistics #LanguageIdeologies #Videogames #PopularCulture #PoliticsOfLanguage #Ideology #IdeologyCritique #PopularPostcolonalism #CriticalToponymy #Toponymy #Placenames #DigitalCulture #VernacularTheory #Civilization #Civ6
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Proposal - New name for contemporary USA (No longer UNITED)
A "disunited" version of the United States could be
The Divided States of America
The Fractured States of America
The Dissociated States of America
The Untied States of America
#Toponymy
#USA
Colleagues from @uantwerpen.be Christophe De Coster & @leahermenault.bsky.social presented their work (i.c.w. Iason Jongepier) on analysing the (un)changing nature of toponyms, using the CLARIAH-VL+ developed service infrastructure component BHG (Belgian Historical Gazetteer) #toponymy #gazetteer
Evidence that a #goth-toponym was on the move from VästerGötland to Côte d'Azur. The case of #Simbo, south-west in #Lidköping comm. to La #Simboula in #Eze comm.
#Simboula means land of #Simbo.
#toponymy, #migration, #goth, #vandring
Descendants of goths, Yes but not only. Toulouse was the main town of a Visigoth kingdom. What is less or unknown, are those common toponyms in the suburbs of both Toulouse and Gothenburg. #toponymy
Cagot = a goth with horse (not with dog. As some may believe)
Fancy a journey into the fascinating world of toponymy in Scotland, where every name tells a story? The 2025 Rhind Lectures will be given by Dr Simon Taylor, hosted by @socantscot.bsky.social #toponymy #placenames
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How often does it happen that a place takes name from a company that occupies it? In #Warsaw, a whole city district of Ursus was named after a company that used to have a gigantic mechanical factory here, manufacturing tractors and other vehicles for about a hundred years. It had a few different […]
#Gauté sur la commune de #Caubiac dans le 31, n'est que la françisation du prénom masculin norvégien. Gaute.
Donc rien à voir avec du gascon, ni du latin, ni du celte, de l'occitan, ni de germain ou issu-de-germain...😁 Comme la plupart des toponymes du sud-ouest français.😜
#toponymy #toponymie
This 1978 edition of #GeographicalNames of #PrinceEdwardIsland features a 25"x34" #map in #colour in the back pocket. $30. #Booksky #LocalHistory #Maritimes #PlaceNames #geography #toponymy #AlanRayburn
Google Maps has history of appeasing govts who want names, borders shown differently. Often it shows different versions to people in different countries, and says it will do that here too.
www.voanews.com/a/google-map...
#toponymy #geography #maps #mapping #cartography #geopolitics
Screengrab of text reading "As such, within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior shall, consistent with 43 U.S.C. 364 through 364f, take all appropriate actions to rename as the “Gulf of America” the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico. The Secretary shall subsequently update the GNIS to reflect the renaming of the Gulf and remove all references to the Gulf of Mexico from the GNIS, consistent with applicable law. The Board shall provide guidance to ensure all federal references to the Gulf of America, including on agency maps, contracts, and other documents and communications shall reflect its renaming."
In interesting show of restraint, #USA president's order to change "#GulfOfMexico" to "#GulfOfAmerica" on govt maps seems to specify that only the part under US jurisdiction is being renamed. (link in comment)
#toponymy #geography #mapping #hydrology #UNCLOS #maritime #names
#Alberta #toponymy map! Find out the meaning of any Alberta place name geospatial.alberta.ca/portal/apps/webappviewer...
