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	Slavery in America
		African place names in the American South are essential clues for tracing and documenting African migration in continental North America.
		The distribution of African place names throughout the American South is a testament to the lasting influence of a people, their cultural history, and legacy.
		These place names are widely distributed along coastal areas and rivers, at ports of entry, and in population centers.
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /history/hs_es_placenames_ms.htm (1118 words)

	Toponymy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In ethnology, a toponym is a name derived from a place or a region.
		In anatomy, a toponym is a name of a region of the body, as distinguished from the name of an organ.
		In biology, a toponym is a binomial name of a plant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Place_name (460 words)

	African Americans
		Historical architect Paul Buchanan has recently theorized that a matching set of duplexes was on the southwest of the main house, opposite to and screened by the stables as well as trees.
		The study of the names of enslaved African-Americans in the eighteenth century is complex and controversial.
		This passing on of a name from father to son was a part of the Western tradition, although it may have been adopted by slaves to record parenthood in a society which usually recognized only maternal lines.
	www.stratfordhall.org /africa.html (5642 words)

	Reading Public Museum: Discovery Through Art, Science and Civilization, a museum, planetarium and park located in Berks ...
		The African art best known in the west and best represented in the Museum began to be collected in the 19th century in the Sub-Sahara just before the culture and ethno geography of Africa began to be frozen in place by colonial empires.
		Indigenous African art falls into three sorts: figurative, from small and simple to elaborate carvings; masks, which are among the best known in the world; and the decoration of useful objects, such as headrests, doors and locks, furniture, textiles, implements and utensils and the human body.
		African artists almost always remain anonymous because of the power they assign to names, which are considered the essence of the things named.
	www.readingpublicmuseum.org /galleries/first/african.html (1343 words)

	EJAB 10: Central and East Africa
		The first part provides the meaning of Congolese place names, rural and urban, and underlines their value as traces of population movements and therefore as important documents for the study of local and national history.
		The primary function of a clan name is to identify the bearer of the name with the clan to which s/he belongs.
		The author claims that place names constitute records of precious data on the physical characteristics of places of settlement and on the motivating factors that preside over the choice of those places.
	sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu /ejab/10/ccentralandeast.html (3827 words)

	Power of Place - The National Geography Standards
		Places change in size and complexity and in economic, political, and cultural importance as networks of relationships between places are altered through population expansion, the rise and fall of empires, changes in climate and other physical systems, and changes in transportation and communication technologies.
		Students need an understanding of why places are the way they are, because it can enrich their own sense of identity with a particular place and enable them to comprehend and appreciate both the similarities and differences of places around their own community, state, country, and planet.
		The significance that an individual or group attaches to a specific place or region may be influenced by feelings of belonging or alienation, a sense of being an insider or outsider, a sense of history and tradition or of novelty and unfamiliarity.
	www.learner.org /powerofplace/standards.html (12744 words)

	African Burial Ground - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		African Americans have a long and proud story to tell in the history of this country and a unique cultural heritage.
		The area of the African Burial Ground was known and used as part of New York's "common" land until the late eighteenth century.
		Africans used land for a burial place that was then remote from the colonial town by virtue of its location in a low-lying area between hills, as well as in actual distance.
	www.africanburialground.com /ABG_History.htm (2529 words)

	Genealogy at the Virginia Historical Society
		African American genealogical research should be approached initially just as any genealogical research is begun: start with your immediate family and work backward, generation by generation.
		African Americans are usually able to trace their ancestry back to the end of the Civil War without too much difficulty by using census records, county court records (deeds, marriages, wills, etc.), church and cemetery records, and vital statistics (birth and death).
		If a slave was born after 1852 his or her name, birth date, and mother's name might be recorded in the Register of Births, which is available on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
	www.vahistorical.org /research/genealogy.htm (2781 words)

	Names
		When names or name patterns are used traditionally by particular kin groups, rather than by the society as a whole, they come to have a sort of copyright attached to them.
		Names might sometimes pass outside a subgroup by loan or gift, but using a name of this sort without permission would be bad manners at best and a theft of intellectual property at worst.
		Public names among the Navajo are often of foreign (English or Spanish) origin, for use by those who are not able to to use a kinterm instead, and are unwilling to deal with people on a basis of anonymity.
	spot.colorado.edu /~koontz/faq/names.htm (3430 words)

	Wikinfo \| History of Africa
		Their primary weapons historically are bows and short stabbing spears with shields.
		Accounts of a vast inland sea, and the discovery in 1840-1848, by the missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johann Rebmann, of the snow-clad mountains of Kilimanjaro and Kenya, stimulated in Europe the desire for further knowledge.
		In 1858-1864 the lower Zambezi, the Shire and Lake Nyasa were explored by Livingstone, Nyasa having been first reached by the confidential slave of Antonio da Silva Porto, a Portuguese trader established at Bihe in Angola, who crossed Africa during 1853-1856 from Benguella to the mouth of the Rovuma.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=History_of_Africa (4402 words)

	Historical African place names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of historical African place names.
		The names on the left are linked to the corresponding subregion(s) from History of Africa.
		French Equatorial Africa - Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of the Congo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historical_African_place_names (135 words)

	Researching Your African American Ancestors (continued) - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
		African American genealogy offers unique challenges, but a basic framework of information gleaned from family traditions, forgotten cemeteries, or family Bibles provides researchers with a good starting point.
		The name of the child's father was not required by law.
		Any owner holding a life estate in slaves was required to submit an annual list to the county clerk "of the names, sex, and ages of such slaves." A Meade County "Life Estate or Dower Slaves" book for the years 1850 through 1865 virtually serves as a yearbyyear chronicle for many slave families.
	www.kdla.ky.gov /resources/KYAfricanAmerResearch.htm (1003 words)

	Thousands of PLACE NAMES for your dog, horse, cat, pet or child from Chinaroad Lowchens of Australia -
		Names of over 70,000 countries, states, counties, departments, provinces, cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rivers, seas and other places of the world.
		The Romans, Danes, Anglo-Saxons, Norse, Normans and the Celts have all named places in England.
		The names of all counties in the People’s Republic of China that are in Tibetan autonomous areas or, in eastern Qinghai, areas which have a significant Tibetan population.
	www.lowchensaustralia.com /names/placenames.htm (1724 words)

	Africa Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Africa.html (882 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
		Visual timelines illustrating a variety of topics, including African Americans in the military, the Civil War, ex-slaves, and politicians, can be created using images found through searches that combine photograph with other relevant terms.
		One of these Jim Crow laws (borrowing their name from a fl character on the minstrel stage) was New Orleans’ 1890 legislation that required separate railroad cars for fl passengers and white passengers.
		Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans from the bonds of slavery and called for their enlistment in the Union Army as a means to end the Civil War.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/collections/aaohio/thinking.html (2346 words)

	Historical Places in Ethiopia
		And Axum, Ethiopia's most ancient city and the capital of the historic Axumite state, is the site of many remarkable monolithic stone stelae, or obelisks, the three most important being decorated to represent multi-storied buildings, complete with doors and windows.
		A nearby outhouse is the reputed repository of the biblical Ark of the Covenant.
		This historic relic cannot be seen but visitors there can see and photograph a number of the remarkable crowns that belonged to several notable Ethiopian monarchs of the past.
	www.selamta.net /historical_places.htm (1596 words)

	African Languages - Meanings of place names in South Africa
		♦ Folovhodwe is the name of the village.
		♦ Irene was the name of the wife of the original landowner, named Nellmapius 100 yrs.
		This region of the Island is a meeting place between different lavatypes, water (the lake) and the sky (the lake's altitude)
	africanlanguages.com /south_africa/place_names_sagns.html (1411 words)

	History of Afghanistan
		Except along this seaboard, which was colonized directly from Asia, Arab progress southward was stopped by the broad belt of dense forest, stretching almost across the continent somewhat south of 10° North latitude, which barred their advance much as the Sahara had proved an obstacle to their predecessors.
		For a time the Muslim conquests in South Europe had virtually made of the Mediterranean an Arab lake, but the expulsion in the 11th century of the Saracens from Sicily and southern Italy by the Normans was followed by descents of the conquerors on Tunisia and Tripoli.
		For some time before 1884 there had been growing up a general conviction that it would be desirable for the powers who were interesting themselves in Africa to come to some agreement as to "the rules of the game," and to define their respective interests so far as that was practicable.
	www.v72.org /history_africa.htm (4432 words)

	Books on African Names, African Muslim Names and African-Amercian Names - Childrens Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Names are a hallmark of our heritage, reflections of both the ethnic and religious roots of our past and our dreams for our children's future.
		In addition, the title of the book led me to be believe that it would be ALL African names but instead, there are entire pages with no African names, but rather Eurocentric names that some African Americans have used for their children in the past.
		Asante provides the historical rationale and the proper translations and usage of African names from the four corners of the continent.
	maxpages.com /babynames/African_Names_Books - !http://www.maxpages.com/babynames/African_Names_Books (766 words)

	Ancient history : Fraud of chronology : Ancient Egypt ,Ancient Greece
		The official historical chronology, presently commonly acknowledged, was originated by the Italian theologian and scientist I. Scaliger (1540-1609).
		In summary, according to Scaliger, Petavius and their followers, the events of the ancient world took place from about 3,500 years B.C. till the fifth century A.D. As their results were never independently confirmed, there is an outstanding question of the credibility of this chronology.
		On the horizontal axis are placed the subsequent numbers of the consecutive rulers (or names of kings, emperors, etc.) and on the vertical axis is marked the length of the reign of the corresponding ruler.
	www.new-tradition.org /investigation-historical-dating.htm (4058 words)

	Denver Public Library: Western History Genealogy: Research Tools
		A directory of prospector arrivals, removals, deaths, marriages, children, property, mines, and ranches, with names of old towns, mining camps, gulches, mountains, rivers, creeks, and other matters relating to the setting of their lives in the Pikes Peak Region.
		Promotes genealogical and historical research and education to expand the awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of Hispanic culture, history, and traditions.
		Historic and current fl-and-white and 2005 color aerial photo maps of the entire state of Colorado.
	history.denverlibrary.org /research (2289 words)

	History of Africa - Gurupedia
		With his large brain (1,000cc), he mastered the African plains, fabricating a variety of stone tools that enabled him to become a hunter equal to the top predators.
		Interaction between Asia, Europe and North Africa during this period was significant, major effects include the spread of classical culture around the shores of the Mediterranean; the continual struggle between Rome and the Berber tribes; the introduction of Christianity throughout the region, and the cultural effects of the churches in Tunisia, Egypt and Ethiopia.
		East India Company, on their own initiative, took possession of Table Bay in the name of King James, fearing otherwise that English ships would be "frustrated of watering but by license." Their action was not approved in London and the proclamation they issued remained without effect.
	www.gurupedia.com /h/hi/history_of_africa.htm (5827 words)

	Roman place names: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Roman place names Roman place names Provincial Place Names in the Roman Empire...the Roman Empire : Roman Name Current Name Achaea Greece Africa Tunisia Albion England Anatolia...
		...proper....had already taken place before the literary tradition began, its origins were in most cases...The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state (see List of Di Indigetes), and their...
		Quite a few Japanese names, particularly family names, include...is also found in place names in Japan (see Japanese-place-name Japanese place name Japanese...community, which causes severe difficulties in representing them on the computer.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ro/Roman-place-names.html (209 words)

	Historical Country Names
		Name changes of countries, dependencies, geographical and other regions of particular geopolitical interest.
		Senegambia (region; former name of the confederation of Senegal and Gambia)
		If you know an old country name that is not listed here, or for error corrections please contact us.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/hist_country_names.htm (1110 words)

	Transgariep Area
		The Roman Catholic Church, built in 1881, is another of the places worth seeing, as is the Open Mine Museum and Look-out Post, the Jagers Mining Village and the original water pumps in the streets.
		Various monuments, historical buildings and memorials are to be found, as well as the Mosterthoek Battlefield.
		The only way for you to experience this rich historical area, is to actually come and enjoy the friendly and welcoming, down to earth people of the region.
	www.places.co.za /html/transgariep.html (892 words)

	Amazon.com: The Book of African Names: Books: Molefi Kete Asante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Asante provides the historical rationale and the proper translations and usage of African names from the four corners of the continent.
		African names that have negative connotations are, for the most part, intended for the good of children born under adverse circumstances.
		The African logic is that giving a 'bad' name to say a very sick child, will lure away the attention of the evil forces of death.
	www.amazon.com /Book-African-Names-Molefi-Asante/dp/0865432554 (964 words)

	Finding a Name and Arms for Historical Re-Creation
		Names are one of the biggest components of the culture that groups like the SCA are trying to build--and whether or not people use your new name in daily use, it will come up in courts and "formal" SCA settings.
		Names can be divided into "given names," the name by which people call you, and "bynames," the names which are added to given names.
		Names were spelled to reproduce their pronunciation, but the sound assigned to each letter also varied from one language to another, just as it does today.
	www.s-gabriel.org /faq/introduction.html (2485 words)

	Not Out of Africa by Mary Lefkowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a course in Afro-American studies she had been told that he was fl, and my silence about his African ancestry seemed to her to be a confirmation of the Eurocentric arrogance her instructor had warned her about.
		The name Cleopatra was one of the names traditionally given to women in the royal family; officially our Cleopatra (69-30 BC) was Cleopatra VII, the daughter of Ptolemy XII and his sister.
		In historical and scientific discussions it is possible to distinguish degrees, and to be more or less accurate.
	www.historyplace.com /pointsofview/not-out.htm (5365 words)

	South African Languages \| Place names
		The origin of the name arises from the Battle of Tugela, which was fought on the slopes of Ndodakusuka in 1838 between the settlers from Port Natal and an impi of Dingane.
		The name of the municipality is derived from the Kouga mountain range and the Tsitsikama mountain range.Titsikama is said to mean “waters begin”, an explanation borne out by the high rainfall and the occurence of many rivers and streams.Kouga is a Khoi name.
		Mbombela was the name of the township that bordered Nelspruit on the north-east before its residents were forcefully relocated in the late 1960s and early 1970s to the township of Kanyamazane a couple of kilometres east of Nelspruit.
	salanguages.com /munnames.htm (10224 words)

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