Reference or Gazetteer for Historical Place Names
Perhaps this is a little off-topic of this group, but does anyone know of a good reference for historical place names?For example, in Marco Polo's time the land we know today as Japan was called...
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"For example, in Marco Polo's time the land we know today as Japan was called Cipangu."By whom? Just the Italians?" Later, it became Nippon."The name Nippon predates Marco Polo.
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Never heard of such a thing --- interesting idea, though. I look forward to seeing what (if anything) other people on this forum come up with.
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Googling on the three terms HISTORIC PLACE NAMES soon led me to the term "toponymy", with a Wikipedia article having a lot to say. OneLook definitions were mostly "The study of placenames for a...
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Thanks OP... "Nippon" is older than "Cipangu" (although they derive from the same word according to this: http://www.answers.com/topic/japan).I guess I am looking for "toponymy" from the western...
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I don't know of any single sources for global toponyms. There are any number of excellent works focusing on particular regions, like Mill's Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, but none that have...
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This is a subject dear to my heart, and I highly recommend Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary; you can see the first page here. Note that Aachen is followed by "or Fr. Aix-la-Chapelle; anc....
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Quote:Mill's Oxford Dictionary of English Place NamesMills is adequate and readily available, but Eilert Ekwall's Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (I think it may have also been...
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Quote:there used to be a huge database of geographical names created by a Basque guy (all text was in both Basque and English), but I can't seem to find it right now.Is this the one you mean?
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That's it! Bless you; here's the main index, which I've bookmarked on my laptop (transitions between computers are so traumatic...).
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Some interesting links to maps at this University of Texas site. www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html
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