S20: Names as cultural heritage
  
 

5. Names in colonisation-names as claims or mementos (continued ...)
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Spanish and Portuguese exploration in America

  • Coastal names mostly descriptive, religious (more than in Africa) or commemorative

  • Inland settlement names in former Aztec and Inca empires (many cities) mostly in indigenous form

  • As in Africa, mythical elements in the interior: 7 cities of Cibola, Lake Parime (el Dorado)
 
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