ICA course on Toponymy

The content of this module is based on materials by Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu, Andreas Illert, Bernd E. Beinstein. These materials are made available in the "documents" section.

The module contains the following chapters:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Gazetteer of the Netherlands
Chapter 2: Gazetteer of the Federal Republic of Germany
Chapter 3: Geographical Names Data Bases (GNDB)
Chapter 4: Number of entries in a GNDB
Chapter 5: Contents of the data bases
Chapter 6: Types of names
Chapter 7: Sources
Chapter 8: Digital names data bases

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.