Place Names of the World, Europe: Historical Context, Meanings and Changes

Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2000.,

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ISBN

033377759X

Author

Everett-Heath, John

Publishers

Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2000.

Keyword

Geografia

Binding description

Dust jacket

State of preservation

As New

Binding

Hardcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

252 x 192 mm. Place names are a window into the history and characteristics of a country. Their names reflect the migrations of peoples, their religious and cultural traditions, local languages, conquests and fortifications long since disappeared. They also reflect the topography and industrial development of a place. John Everett Heath, drawing on his experience and contacts at the FCO, has developed a reference text of the origins of European place names. The text is ordered by country alphabetically. It includes a historical section, putting the place name into context, and references those events, which have had an impact on the geography of a country, and those foreign influences, which have played a part in shaping the place name. This volume is confined to the 38 countries of Europe, together with Andorra, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City. All place names of cities and towns of particular importance and interest are included.