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Chrismi –Rinda Loth  (ed), Recognition, Regulation, Revitalization. Place Names and indigenous Languages.
DOi https://doi.org/10.18820/97819283424697. Imprint SunBonani Conference E: media@sunbonani.co.za
Publication Date 2020. Preis  R 375 (print), R 300 (e-bbok)

Palagiano Cosimo (2020), Piante di città: sogni, arte, cartografia, progetti, in “L’Universo”, Firenze, IGM, n. 2, pp. 160-185.

Palagiano Cosimo and Lesti Lamberto (2020), Ptolemy’s Place Names of Mesopotamia, in L. Capezzone (ed) Before Archeology. The Meaning of the Past in the Islamic Pre-Modern Thought (and After). Roma, Editoriale Artemide.

JANA MOSER (Hrsg.), Forum ifL. Heft 30. IGU-UGI, ICA-ACI, Joint Commission Seminar on Historical Maps, Atlases and Toponymy. Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, 2016

LUCIE MÖLLER (ed.) “Nomina Africana. Journal of the Names Society of Southern Africa”, 30(1) April 2016

MIRELA ALTIĆ, IMORE JOSEPH DEMAHARDT, SOETKIN VERWUST (eds.), Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge, 6 th International Symposium of the Commission on the History of Cartography, Springer, 2017

RAIS AKTHAR, COSIMO PALAGIANO (eds.), Climate Change ad Air Pollution. The Impact in Developed and Developing Countries, Springer, 2017

The ICA 25^th International Cartographic Conference in Paris in July 2011 is special from a toponymical point of view because it marks the first meeting of the joint ICA-IGU Commission on Toponymy.

Toponymy has been a regular theme for international cartographic conferences for decades, and it is only proper that this has been institutionalized now.

The subject of toponymy is now not only dealt within an onomastical context at the biannual ICOS meetings, and within an administrative context at the biannual UNGEGN meetings, but also within a geo-cartographic context at joint ICA-IGU meetings.

The toponymical contributions to the Paris International Cartographic Conference are diverse, both geographically and thematically. Geographically, the focus is on Brazil and on Europe, with a paper on Tunis as a Mediterranean extension of Europe.

The subjects range from the collection of geographical names to the operation of names servers, from the use of exonyms in school atlases to the creation of names data bases and from the reconstruction of former namescapes to the creation of new ones.

Contents:

Bailly Guillaume (France): Nommer les communautés de communes: état des lieux en 2012, à l’heure de la réforme territoriale

Dhieb, Mohsen (Saudi Arabia): Towards a geographical database of names in Tunisia: The case of the map sheet of Sfax NW # 107

Jordan, Peter (Austria): Trends in exonym use of European school atlases

Löfström, Jonas & Pansini, Valeria (France): Toponyms and cartography: Historical perspective and linguistic challenges

Mathias, Márcia (Brazil): The importance of the phonemes in the collection of geographical names in Brazil

Menezes, Paulo de, Almeida, Camila de & Freitas, Anniele de (Brazil): Toponymy of the political-administrative evolution of Rio de Janeiro State – Brazil

Resende, Ana, Santos, Cláudio dos, & Mathias, Márcia (Brazil): The riverhead of the Uruguai River: origins of a controversy

Santos, Claudio dos (Brazil): A new approach to the collection of geographical names in Brazil

Szyszkowska, Karolina & Przyszewska, Katarzyna (Poland): The national register of geographical names as part of a modern, consistent and reference spatial data infrastructure of Poland

Zaccheddu, Pier-Giorgio (Germany) & Overton, David (Belgium): EuroGeoNames (EGN) – The implementation of an INSPIRE service

The book can be ordered from the publisher Kovač, cf. to http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-6700-9.htm

A short history of the Journal Name and Place

In 1969 the Society Name and Place commenced publishing its annual “Journal”, which contains essays on various place-name topics. Most English counties are now covered in its place-name survey, however its early volumes are not as detailed as its later ones. From the 1960s there has been a change in the interpretation of some place-names, resulting from the detailed comparison of distributions of the place-name types which had been thought to be early Saxon and archaeological evidence.

There was originally also a bias towards interpreting names as Anglo-Saxon, and some have now been shown to be more likely Celtic. Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson advised on Celtic names.

By 2007 it had published 82 volumes of the county-by-county Survey of English Place-Names, aimed mainly at scholarly and academic users, and a range of books and booklets on names organized by region or by category (e.g. field-names), as well as some county dictionaries aimed mainly at a nonspecialist audience.

The Society is starting to publish a new series of booklets on placename elements, but it is likely to be some time before this is complete. The Survey has been consistently supported, morally and practically, by the British Academy, and from 2005 to 2010 was supported by a large grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

English Place-Name Society material was used as the basis of the The Cambridge dictionary of English place-names published in 2004.