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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"toponyms"”.
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Mapping the Underthing: Literary Geography and Geographic Education in The Slow Regard of Silent Things
… spaces can be mapped, the significance of toponyms (i.e., place-names), and the broader implications for literary and geographic studies. Of the fifty-two (52) toponyms analyzed, thirty-eight (38) were meaningfully identified using the text and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), revealing …
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ΕΝΑ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΜΕΣΑΙΩΝΙΚΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ: Η ΣΕΡΒΙΚΗ ΕΠΕΚΤΑΣΗ ΣΤΗ ΔΥΤΙΚΗ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΣΤΑ ΜΕΣΑ ΤΟΥ ΙΔ' ΑΙ.
… WAS BRIEF AND ONLY A FEW TRACES, SUCH AS TOPONYMS, SURVIVE ATTESTING TO THEIR PASSAGE. TOWARDS THE END OF THE 14 TH C. THEY BEGAN TO ABANDON THIS AREA, REMOVING TO EAST CENTRAL GREECE AND THE PELOPONESE.
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Where are you talking about? Advances and Challenges of Geographic Analysis of Text with Application to Disease Monitoring
… is the process of extraction and grounding of toponyms (place names). Consider this sentence: "The victims of the Spanish earthquake off the coast of Malaga were of American and Mexican origin." Four toponyms will be extracted (called Geotagging) and grounded to their geographic coordinates …
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The salience and visibility of toponymic changes in Makhanda & Gqeberha: A social semiotic perspective
… history, an excessive number of colonial toponyms (place names) can be found across the country. The democratic government of South Africa has taken the somewhat controversial step of correcting these colonial names through the process of renaming places and street names. In this study, I …
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Analisi diacronica, pedogeochimica ed etnopedologica per lo studio dell’evoluzione storico-territoriale e delle condizioni attuali dei suoli e del paesaggio. La fascia costiera dell’Ambito di Paesaggio “Golfo di Oristano”(Sardegna centro-occidentale)
… the landscape; - local knowledge expressed with toponyms (place names), which are often originated by the characteristics of the landscape to which they relate and contribute to the formation of the social representation of a territory. The starting point of the study has been the consciousness …
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História de Portugal de Fernão de Oliveira: edição semidiplomática e análise da retórica nos topônimos de Portugal
… that we propose here to analyze the Portuguese toponyms found in the text História de Portugal, written by the humanist Fernão de Oliveira, probably around 1581, and how this author uses the rhetorical discourse from the onomastic lexicon. To do so, we seek support in specific theoretical …
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The networked polis: Unravelling Magnesia's place in the Hellenistic world through the digital reconstruction of journeys.
… journey simulations, using as inputs ancient toponyms and a high-resolution topographic dataset. A minimum total cost methodology is used to construct a network of least cost paths linking 2,600 nodes across the Greek world, calibrated with the Peutinger Table and Delphic theorodokoi list. The …
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Timber, trade, and transformation: a historical geography of mahogany in Honduras
… Honduran landscape, including investigation of toponyms and relict mahogany sites. In the chronological narrative, particular emphasis is placed on the rebirth of the trade in the 1830s under the auspices of Francisco Morázan and Marshall Bennett, as well as the boom years of the 1840s and …
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Some cults of Greek goddesses and female daemons of oriental origin: especially in relation to the mythology of goddesses and demons in the Semitic world
… then consider the linguistic evidence, such as toponyms, personal names and the LA tablets. The evidence for contact is overwhelming. In Chapter Two we consider the evidence for Semitic motifs in the iconography, mythology and names of Greek goddesses connected with nature. Thus Semitic …
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The Poetics of Geography in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… through place names. I argue that Ovid’s use of toponyms sheds light on his poetics: the places of the Metamorphoses are sites of generic negotiation, poetic self-fashioning and metapoetic reflection. Place names also contribute to Ovid’s structural and narrative strategies, serving as …
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The Efficacy Of Corrective Feedback And Target Form Enhancement In Promoting Acquisition Of The À/Au/En/Aux Distinction In L2 French
… as the à/au/en/aux distinction before French toponyms. In a controlled experiment with a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design, all French 102 students at the University of Arizona in Fall 2006 were randomly assigned to an interactive, computer-based reading lesson featuring either …
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Talking Statues: An Italian Communicative Phenomenon from the Renaissance to the Present Day
… statues have pervaded the Roman urban fabric as toponyms over the centuries. Additionally, the thesis delves into the continuous spatial spread of the phenomenon with additional statues activated across the Italian Peninsula, regarding them as a unique network and considering mobility as the main …