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History of English Place-Names

An essay from the Society for Creative Anachronism, with bibliography.

http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/engplnam.html

Chinese Conventional Place Names

The Library of Congress is beginning the process of revising the Chinese place names currently established in a conventional English-language form to the ...

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/china.html

Board on Geographic Names (BGN)

Information related to the Board on Geographic Names, Domestic Names, Foreign Names, Antarctic Names, and Undersea Features.

http://geonames.usgs.gov/redirect.html

U.S. Place & Geographic Names

Free Place & Geographinc Names Lookup for the nation with over a million places.

http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/placenames.asp

ESL Quiz - Place Names (Letitia Bradley) I-TESL-J

Place Names. Click on the answer button to see the correct answer. Keep your score if you like. If you want to see monkeys, lions, tigers and bears, ...

http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/pln.html

The Whole Basque Place-Name List

Original Basque names for places that appear in French or Spanish in maps.

http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/5062/topo2.html

Tacoma Public Library - Washington Place Names

Tacoma Public Library Northwest Reference Collection Past and Present web reference.

http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/wanames/

Place Names in West Virginia

Listing of place names, year founded, county and former names.

http://www.wvculture.org/HiStory/wvplacenames.html

Michigan Communities Townships and Counties

All place names that are registered as current by the State of Michigan in 2002 are complete. The database is unique, in that there are both current and ...

http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/mi_places/

Orbis Latinus - List of City Names

Other useful resources for Latin placenames are:. BSC Latin Place Names File. Names of Printing Towns. CERL Thesaurus. If you have any questions, ...

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html

Place Names

Also please consider that later latinizations of place names, for places like Moskow for example, will not be placed on the list. It is the Roman names of ...

http://www.roman-empire.net/diverse/places.html

KryssTal : London Place Names

A table listing the major areas in London (UK). The meaning of the place names and the year of first use.

http://www.krysstal.com/londname.html

Polk County Place Names

Polk County Place Names Compiled By M. Constance Guardino III July 2008 (1) Ford Family Slave Quarters (2) Former Slave Louis Southworth ...

http://ftp.wi.net/~census/lesson5.html

Geographic Names

The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20000 of the database's features are updated ...

http://www.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html

Amazon.com: Oklahoma Place Names: George H. Shirk: Books

1001 Kansas Place Names by Sondra Van Meter McCoy .... Durham's Place Names of California's North Sacramento Valley: Includes Butte, Glenn, Shasta, ...

http://www.amazon.com/Oklahoma-Place-Names-George-Shirk/dp/0806120282

Circle of Stories . We Are Here . Place Names | PBS

By checking out this Place Names Map, explore the deep connection that Native Americans have to the earth itself, and the influence that Native people ...

http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/wearehere/placenames.html

Pitcairn Place Names

JOHNNY FALL - [N] The place on the northern coast, located north of where the school stands today, where John Mills Jr. fell to his death. ...

http://www.lareau.org/pitplace.html

Wood County place names

This book is a listing of the place names of Wood County Wisconsin, with explainations of their origins. The book is copyrighted by the University of ...

http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/mcm/history/placenames.html

RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File

Locations from the imprints of books before 1801 and their vernacular equivalents (Brigham Young University).

http://net.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/latin/names.htm

Georgia Place Names Home Page

Georgia Place Names Home Page ...

http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/placenamesindex.htm