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proper names of
planets and
planetary systems.
Probably the
first toponymists were the
storytellers and
poets who
explained the
origin of specific...
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location of
Grannona is
uncertain and was
identified by the
historians and
toponymists at
different places:
mainly with the town
known today as
Granville (in...
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referred to
Grand Bahama alone but was used
inclusively in
English by 1670.
Toponymist Isaac Taylor argues that the name was
derived from
Bimani (Bimini), which...
- of the word fuji is in the
Yamato language rather than Ainu. ****anese
toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as
wisteria (藤, fuji)...
- (1183–4),
Sordig (1204), Sc****sdich (1220–21), and
other variants.
Toponymists are
generally agreed that the name
derives from Old
English "scoradīc"...
-
named after the
legendary giant highwayman Bertram de Shotts,
though toponymists give the Anglo-Saxon scēots ("steep slopes") as the real
source of the...
- on his own chart; the city in turn took its name from the cape.
Noted toponymist and
historian George R.
Stewart favored this explanation,
citing a letter...
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philosopher MPC · 3949 3950
Yoshida 1986 CH
Tougo Yoshida (1864–1918), ****anese
toponymist MPC · 3950 3951
Zichichi 1986 CK1
Antonino Zichichi (born 1929), Italian...
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although historians do not
believe the
inscription refers to King Arthur.
Toponymists have had
difficulty explaining the
origin of 'Tintagel': the probability...
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granted to the
Cistercian order by
Henry II in the 1180s.
According to the
toponymists Albert Dauzat and later, François de Beaurepaire,
there are two possible...
