Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Saul Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231145541
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 4454

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A geographical encyclopedia of world place names contains alphabetized entries with detailed statistics on location, name pronunciation, topography, history, and economic and cultural points of interest.

Author: Fred G. Alberts
Publisher:
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Author: Merrick Lex Berman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253022568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age.

Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Roger L. Payne
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662299
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 527

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The rich history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is reflected in the names of its towns, geographic features, and waterways. A book over twenty years in the making, The Outer Banks Gazetteer is a comprehensive reference guide to the region's place names—over 3,000 entries in all. Along the way, Roger L. Payne has cataloged an incredible history of beaches, inlets, towns and communities, islands, rivers, and even sand dunes. There are also many entries for locations that no longer exist—inlets that have disappeared due to erosion or storms, abandoned towns, and Native American villages—which highlight important and nearly forgotten places in North Carolina's history. Going beyond simply recounting the facts behind the names, Payne offers information-packed and entertainingly written stories of North Carolina, its coastal geography, and its people. Perfect for anyone interested in the North Carolina coast, this invaluable reference guide uncovers the history of one of the most-visited areas in the Southeast.

Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Donald J. Orth
Publisher:
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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher:
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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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