The 2018 IGU Thematic Conference dedicated to the centennial of the Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Science.

Practical Geography and XXI Century Challenges  June 5 and 6, 2018

C 16.35 Toponymy (Jointly with International Cartographic Association).

Use of Place Names in Public Space

Chairs Cosimo Palagiano and [Peter Jordan] Paulo de Menezes

Cosimo Palagiano, Franco Fatigati, Use of Place Names in Maps of the World Enclosed in Brochures of the International Airline Companies

Z. Prnjat, M. TadićLj. Marković, Road Signs: Markers of Multilingual Communities of Vojvodina

Paulo Márcio Leal De Menezes, Manoel Do Couto Fernandes, Kairo De Silva Santos, Tainá Laeta Evolution of Old Rio De Janeiro’s Downtown Streets and Public Spaces, From 1770 Until Now

Tamara Galkina, Armenian Toponymy on the Map of Moscow

Josip Faričić, Lena Mirošvić, Which Sea are We Sailing? The Name of the Adriatic Sea on Old Maps

Patric Tátrai, Ágnes Erőss, The Politics of Place Names: The Use of Minority Topnymy in Multiethnic Settings

Andrey Herzen, Toponymical Landscape De Jure and De Facto

Attendance: About 10 people around the table