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	ASU Libraries: Place Names on the Internet
		Kentucky Place Names - A searchable index to place names in Kentucky from the Kentucky Geological Survey.
		GEOnet World Place Names Server - GEOnet is a database of World place names developed from the country gazetteers that were published by the US Defense Mapping Agency (now the National Imagery and Mapping Agency).
		Place Names Database of Estonia - Since it declared its independence in 1991, Estonia has renamed a number of places.
	www.asu.edu /lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm (1326 words)

	MARC Code List for Countries
		Prior to 1971, when the place associated with the item was in question, this condition was indicated by the addition of the letter q in the third character position of the code or by the use of the next higher letter if the third character position was already used.
		Any variant names of the place or names of places assigned to use that code are listed on successive lines, with the first such name preceded by the symbol UF (used for).
		These UF names may represent alternate names of the place, older names of the place, names representing component or subjurisdictional parts of the place, or names of places formerly assigned a separate code.
	lcweb.loc.gov /marc/countries (1473 words)

	The Irish at Home and Abroad: Irish Place Names and the Immigrant / Magazine / Irish Ancestors / ireland.com
		When an exact geographical place name of an ancestor's origin in Ireland is found in records of the family abroad, the family historian is faced with the task of identifying this place in Ireland.
		Often, the place name can't be found on a road map or atlas or in a gazetteer.
		The variation of the name as preserved by the immigrant family may have been the Gaelic (Irish-language) version, whereas Irish gazetteers may use the English variation of the place name.
	www.ireland.com /ancestor/magazine/articles/iha_placenames.htm (580 words)

	Hierarchical Place Name
		Field 752 (Added Entry – Hierarchical Place Name) is a repeatable field containing a hierarchical form of geographic name to give access to place names (“e.g., for newspapers, the name of the community served, for rare books, the name for publication or printing”), according to the MARC 21 format.
		The 752 for a place in the United States includes the name of the state (subfield b), and for a place in Canada includes the name of the province (subfield b).
		Places in Australia and Malaysia are qualified by the name of the state and places in Serbia and Montenegro are qualified by the name of the republic, but the name of the country should be used in the a of the 752.
	hul.harvard.edu /cmtes/haac/Hierarchical_Place_Name.htm (379 words)

	African Languages - Meanings of place names in South Africa
		The changing of names can be a sensitive issue and should be handled carefully; it should be approached with the purpose of trying to unite people in celebrating our full, truthful, shared and intertwined histories, rather than done in a way that divides people, alienates people, or attempts to "selectively erase" parts of our history.
		Although there is no doubt that this is the original name of the area, the actual origin of the name is unclear and still a subject of debate, as there does not seem to be conclusive evidence for any of the explanations given.
		The name was proposed by a Concita Stanissis of Sunnyside Pretoria in August 1961, who proposed either "Soweto" or "Towesa" as the name; here is a copy of the letter, which now hangs in the offices of the Gauteng Housing Department.
	africanlanguages.com /south_africa/place_names.html (2601 words)

	Index to Place Name information
		Place names are given to natural land and seabed features of the earth's surface.
		Place names can represent location (where it is), description (what the feature looks like), belonging (culture and identity), recognition (honouring people and events of significance), development (opportunity/investment) and history (ancestral/settlement).
		Names for streets, roads and highways are assigned by the local City or District Council, in accordance with the Local Government Act.
	www.linz.govt.nz /rcs/linz/pub/web/root/core/placenames/index.jsp (736 words)

	luvly: Exploring place names
		There's a place called White Ox Mead, and it's easy to imagine that it was once a place where oxen grazed on luscious grass.
		Some Latin-sounding name elements were adopted by the Anglo Saxons, after Roman occupation, because they needed words to describe things they found in the British landscape that they had no word of their own for.
		It survives in place names with a wal- element, such as Walcot ("the cottage of the foreigners").
	gilest.org /luvly/20040520-placenames.html (975 words)

	Kashmir / Place Name / GPS Setting
		When [Over Layer 2] is selected place names on the layer from 2 to 5 are displayed.
		Place names are not displayed normally but only when the mouse pointer comes near to the place on the picture it will be displayed.
		To display it again place mouse pointer on the place so that the place name is popped up.
	www.kashmir3d.com /kash/manual-e/bid_name.htm (490 words)

	English Place Names
		The names of some of the towns and villages of Norfolk and Suffolk are a memorial to the people who travelled from the Continent, some as early as the fifth century, to cut the forests and attempt to make a living out of the land.
		However, the place names they have left us are a kind of time-capsule which reveals secrets of what the traveller would have seen between a thousand and fifteen hundred years ago.
		British place names contain elements that can be traced back to the languages spoken by at least five quite distinct groups of people.
	www.englishplacenames.co.uk (2150 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The World's Longest Place Name
		However, it is not recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the longest place name as it is not used on a daily basis by the locals.
		The place with the longest name in common usage is a 252 metre high hill in Central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
		Taumata whaka tangi hanga koauau o tamatea turi pukakapi ki maunga horo nuku poka i whenua kitana tahu translates as the 'place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played his flute to his loved one'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A418565 (284 words)

	The World's Longest Place Name
		It says the name means "The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed, and swallowed mountains, known as land eater, played his flute to his loved one."
		"The name of the city was given by King Rama 1, the founder of the city, to celebrate the new capital, 219 years ago, after Sukhothai, Ayudhaya, and Thonburi.
		He moved the capital of the country from Thonburi to a place called Bangkok at that time, and named the new capital as rungthepmahanakhorn.
	www.fun-with-words.com /longest_place_names.html (1076 words)

	Geoscience Australia: Place names of Australia
		Some of the documents on this webpage may be in PDF Format.
		Should your search display a second place name that does not match your initial query it is the result of the query engine searching for and displaying an alternative official name.
		Note that the homestead names from Geoscience Australia sources are unofficial names.
	www.ga.gov.au /map/names (359 words)

	Scottish Place-Name Survey
		The Scottish Place-Name Survey is one of the partners in conducting a feasibility study funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland to examine the proposed establishment of an Institute for the Languages of Scotland.
		This is a typed MS of 95pp., and includes transcriptions of tape recordings made from informants on names in the parish (1987.) An O.S. 1:25,000 map is included.
		This was a student vacation project completed in 1980, and consists of settlement names, topographic names, and a number of stories relating to names in the area, such as Moses' Well and Merlin's Cleugh.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /institutes/sassi/spns/spnsurvey.htm (1265 words)

	Place Name - Dictionary Definition and Meaning of Place Name
		Place of arms (Mil.), a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe retreat for hospitals, magazines, etc. --Wilhelm.
		Place kick (Football), the act of kicking the ball after it has been placed on the ground.
		Place name, the name of a place or locality.
	www.wordiq.com /define/Place_Name (493 words)

	What's in a Name?
		Places are named for specific reasons whether that place is just down the street or halfway around the globe.
		The students continue this analysis with a map study of place names and the cultural influences of the area.
		One that was named for a person, one that was named for an event, and one that was named for a belief, value, or principle.
	www2.una.edu /geography/statedepted/lessons/name1/whats_in_a_name.html (613 words)

	Sun or Moon Rise/Set Table for One Year (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The place name you enter above must be a city or town in the U.S. The place's location will be retrieved from a file with over 22,000 places listed.
		Spell out place name prefixes, as in "East Orange", "Fort Lauderdale", "Mount Vernon", etc. The only exception is "St.", which is entered as an abbreviation with a period, as in "St. Louis".
		The place name you enter above is used only in the table header; you can enter any identifier, or none (do not use punctuation characters).
	aa.usno.navy.mil /data/docs/RS_OneYear.html (568 words)

	The Irish at Home and Abroad: Colonial Scots-Irish - Place Names Immigrants: The Irish / Magazine / Irish Ancestors / ...
		If a place of origin is found in North American records, the next step is to try to identify exactly where in Ireland this place was.
		An immigrant who left Ireland in the colonial time period might have carried to North America a place name that is no longer in use (such as an alternate townland name or spelling).
		The Ulster Place Name Project is part of the Celtic Department of Queen's University in Belfast.
	www.ireland.com /ancestor/magazine/articles/iha_scotsireland11.htm (356 words)

	Minnesota Place Names - Home Page
		We use place names every day, thinking about where we are going, not where the names came from.
		Minnesota Place Names is both a book, published in a revised and expanded third edition, and this searchable, expanded web site, which includes the text of the book and a wealth of further links to information about Minnesota places.
		Naming a place is a way of connecting to it, of making it more familiar, of taking ownership of it-of developing a true sense of place.
	mnplaces.mnhs.org /upham (300 words)

	Map of Heathen English Place Names
		and it's this place name that is strongly connected to the god Thunor within the tale of St Mildthryth.
		Place name that incorporates the name of the Anglo-Saxon war God Tiw.
		Earth work in Southern England that runs from Somerset to Hampshire, the name Wansdyke means dyke of Woden.The fact that the Anglo-Saxons named this earth work after their god Woden suggests they may have believed that Woden was it's creator and thus named it in his honour.
	www.homestead.com /englishheathenism/heathennamesmap.html (908 words)

	Protection of Cultural Heritage amid Construction Craze
		In North China's Hebei province, the name of the Wanxian county, with "wan" meaning "perfect rivers and mountains" in ancient Chinese, was changed into "Shunping (county)" in 1993, simply because some overseas businessmen said the pronunciation of "wan" in modern oral Chinese may be understood as "got finished".
		"Place names are an important part of China's national cultural heritage," said Liu Baoquan, head of the Place Name Research Center under the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
		The program will work to find, sort out and analyze the remaining old place names on the basis of field work and thus form an assessment system to classify them according to their importance, said Liu.
	www.china.org.cn /english/culture/167653.htm (577 words)

	Heathen Place Names In England
		Place names with an Anglo-Saxon Heathen origin in England are few and far between, but it may have not always been that way.
		But many names of a pre-Christian origin did survive, and do so to this day, whilst others survived long enough to be recorded within the Domesday Book in the 11th century only to be lost later.
		The names that did survive to be with us today more than likely did so because they were located in remote areas where the Christian religion struggled to penetrate, allowing not just the place name to survive but also the worship of gods and goddesses long after the so-called conversion.
	www.homestead.com /englishheathenism/heathennames.html (770 words)

	Behind the Name: Place Name
		A place name or toponym is a name for a location, for example the name of a city.
		Many place names were originally taken from given names, including America, the Philippines, Georgia, Virginia, the many places named Victoria (after queen Victoria), Constantinople (after Constantine), the many places named Alexandria (most after Alexander the Great), Adelaide, Saint Paul, Jamestown, Charleston, San Juan, Santiago, Santa Ana, San Francisco and many more.
		There are also many modern names taken directly from place names, such as Africa, China, France, India, Ireland, Erin, Cambria, London, Paris (when not the name of a Trojan warrior), Roma, Venetia, Verona and Philadelphia.
	www.behindthename.com /glossary/view.php?title=place_name (128 words)

	Catalogue of Archdeaconry of Nottingham Presentment Bills, AN/PB 297 and AN/PB 314
		Place name given variously as Willougbie and Wylloughbye on the oldes.
		Place name given as the chapple of Thurrerton.
		Place name given as West Bridgford, but churchwardens are those for East Bridgford.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /is/services/mss/online/online-mss-catalogues/cats/an_presentment_bills_297-314.html (6228 words)

	Place Name Definitions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		place at which there is or was human activity; it does not include populated places, mines, and dams (battlefield, crossroad, camp, farm, ghost town, landing, railroad siding, ranch, ruins, site, station, windmill).
		place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
		place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
	www.charttiff.com /place_names.shtml (1176 words)

	Place Names - Changes and Variations
		Place names change for a number of reasons: new perceptions of national identity by specific ethnic groups; establishment or disappearance of independent states; changes of borders; creation of federal states; introduction of various levels of local autonomy followed by recognition of minority languages or regional dialects; migrations of new ethnic groups.
		Besides it is important to remember that many times Jews used different place names, either because they spoke a Jewish language (Yiddish, Ladino, Jewish Arabic etc.) or because they preferred variants which are not necessarily identical with current toponymics.
		Changes of place names occurred and continue to happen almost everywhere, most recently important changes in place names occurred in the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe.
	www.bh.org.il /Genealogy/placeNames.aspx (560 words)

	Place Editor
		Places and their associated rules define how publication information is translated into a map marker.
		This is not the name used for lookup, only for labelling the marker on the map.
		Whether this name match only applies when the containing area is known or also when no authoritative area information is available.
	home.comcast.net /~mmcm/zlibmap/help/places.html (561 words)

	Last Name Origins Meaning
		Surnames are generally derived from one of four sources: the name of the person's father (patronymic), the person's locality, the person's occupation, or a descriptive nickname for the person.
		Place names were often taken as a surname.
		They were derived from the name of the place where one resided or from a description of the place.
	www.last-names.net /Articles/Anatomy.asp (1428 words)

	Behind the Name: English Names
		Means "TRENT's town", from the name of a New Jersey city established in the 17th century by William Trent.
		From a surname which was derived either from a place name meaning "temple clearing" in Old English or from a nickname meaning "wily, tricky" in Middle English.
		From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "enclosure belonging to WINE" in Old English.
	www.behindthename.com /nmc/eng16.php (1507 words)

	NIAC Publications ~ Nipmuc Place Names - Connecticut
		The name (massa-amaug-ut) was given to a large tract, "the Mashamoquet Purchase", on which Pomfret was settled.
		The name was transferred to the stream which flowed from the pond, now Hockanum river.
		So, as the name comes to us it may be interpreted: "a good look out" (designating some bold hill near the river), "good cedar-swamp" -- or "where it winds about a bold hill", or "cedar swamp".
	www.nativetech.org /Nipmuc/placenames/connecticut.html (3167 words)

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