ICA course on Toponymy

The content of this module is based on teaching materials by Tjeerd Tichelaar and Ferjan Ormeling. These teaching materials are made available in the "documents" section.

The module contains the following chapters:

Introduction
Chapter 1: History of toponymic guidelines
Chapter 2: The Scope of toponymic guidelines
Chapter 3: Standard content of toponymic guidelines
Chapter 4: Hungarian toponymic guidelines

When reading through the following pages, you will come across some uncommon terms. These terms are hyperlinked to the UNGEGN Glossary of Terminology (pdf ). Behind each term a number (#) is given that corresponds to the numbering applied in this glossary, e.g. toponymy (#344).

For exercises and documents (and literature) on this topic see respectively the "Excercises" and/or the "Docume nts section of this module.

The complete module can be downloaded here.