S17: Legal status of names
 
 

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This chapter is mainly based on the paper "Legal Status of Names" by Peeter Päll , in the proceedings of the Training Course on Toponymy 2002 (Mitteilungen des Bundesamtes für Kartographie und Geodäsie nr 28, Frankfurt 2003. See also the "documents" section.

The module contains the following chapters:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Different notions of "officiality"
Chapter 2: Naming competence
Chapter 3: Making names official
Chapter 4: Legislation on geographical names
Chapter 5: Can official names be wrong?
Chapter 6: Topics of discussion


When reading through the following pages, you will come across some unusual 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 "Exercises" and/or the "Documents" section of this module.

The complete module can be downloaded here.

 
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