PETER JORDAN, HUBERT BERGMANN, CATHERINE CHEETHAM AND ISOLDE HAUSNER (HRSG.)

Geographical Names as a Part
of the Cultural Heritage

Wien 2009, mit 27 Fachvorträgen, insges. 196 S. mit 79 SW-Abb. sowie 11 Tabellen

(WIENER SCHRIFTEN ZUR GEOGRAPHIE UND KARTOGRAPHIE • BAND 18)


ISBN 978-3-900830-67-0
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Inhalt:

Vorwort der Herausgeber / Prefaces

(A) General and theoretical approaches

  • Kerfoot, Helen
    Geographical names and cultural heritage: background information from United Nations (UNCSGN/UNGEGN) materials
  • Watt, Bill
    Cultural aspects of place names with special regard to names in indigenous, minority and regional languages
  • Helleland, Botolv
    Place names as a means of landscape identity
  • Jordan, Peter
    Place names as ingredients of space-related identity

(B) National and regional case studies

a. Africa

  • Khubheka, Trueman
    The South African Geographical Names Database as a tool to record standardisation of geographical names to reflect multiculturalism and multilingualism

b. North Europe

  • Aslaksen, Lisa Monica
    Sámi geographical names in Norway
  • Vuolab-Lohi, Kaarina
    Sámi place names in Finland
  • Nilsson, Leif, Nyström, Staffan and Torensjö, Annette
    Swedish place-name legislation and its emphasis on the preservation of geographical names as a part of the nation’s cultural heritage
  • Paikkala, Sirkka
    Places, names & stories – a pilot project on geographical names in Finland

c. West Europe

  • Ormeling, Ferjan
    Frisification of the map: democratising public administration
  • Mac Giolla Easpaig, Dónall
    Ireland’s heritage of geographical names d. Central Europe
  • Sievers, Jörn, Beinstein, Bernd E. and Zaccheddu, Pier-Giorgio
    Representation and documentation of multilingual geographical names in Germany
  • Bergmann, Hubert
    Austria’s multiethnic heritage as reflected by geographical names
  • Rampl, Gerhard
    Mountain and pasture names of East Tyrol as an example of cultural heritage
  • Kladnik, Drago and Pipan, Primož
    The Bay of Piran (Piranski zaliv): An example of political controversy in geographical names as an expression of cultural relations
  • Brozović Rončević, Dunja
    Croatian place names as a reflection of regional and national heritage and identity
  • Pokoly, Béla and Mikesy, Gábor
    Geographical names of multi-ethnic areas in western Hungary
  • Dutkó, András
    Changes of Hungarian place names in a political context
  • Creţan, Remus
    Settlement names in Timiş County (Romania) deriving from minority languages
  • Zych, Maciej
    Minority place names in Poland
  • Cekula, Zane
    Geographical names of Latgale as part of the cultural heritage

e. East and Southeast Europe

  • Hrytsenko, Pavlo, Sossa, Rostyslav and Syvak, Nina
    Preservation of geographical names in Ukraine
  • Choleva-Dimitrova, Anna and Vlahova-Angelova, Maya
    Standardisation of geographical names in Bulgaria
  • Jačeva-Ulčar, Elka
    Geographical names of FYRO Macedonia as part of its cultural heritage
  • Popović, Mihailo
    Continuity and change of Byzantine and Old Slavonic toponyms in the valley of the river Strumica (FYROM
  • Soustal, Peter
    Place names as a source for migration and settlement: continuity and change in Byzantine Chalkidiki
  • Christodoulou, Menelaos N.
    The safeguarding of geographical names as part of the cultural heritage: the case of Cyprus Authors and editors
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