The article entitled The names of districts and housing estates in Tomaszów Mazowiecki is an attempt to complete the works and studies on city names in Poland. The analysis of proper names material was based on the meaning ...

This paper presents selected issues related to the 18th century toponyms in the region of Chełm. Manuscript sources report microtoponymic formations that display inconsistency in the implementation of the then-contemporary ...

The main purpose of research purpose in this article is the analysis of appellatives testified in field names of district of Zielona Góra and specification of the most dominant types among them. The research material ...

There is no doubt that toponyms constitute an unusually valuable source of knowledge about a given territory. Geographical names retain the most essential characteristics which make up their distinctive and unique images. ...

This paper highlights some of the tendencies in the development of minor place names (anoiconyms) in the village Otročiněves (Central Bohemia). The contemporary forms of names have been collected in a direct field research. ...

The article analyzes a lexical and semantic method of creation of oiconyms of Nadvelikoluzhzhya region. The structural classes of primary oyconyms are selected and presented according to their type, the routine dynamics ...

The village of Stryhantsi of Tysmenytsya District, Ivano-Frankivsk Region is located 30 km northeast of regional centre – city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It is considered to be founded in 1624. The village was mentioned on the ...

Hodonyms function as symbols and convey information about relations between the inhabitants of the city. Considered as signs, they stigmatize space and, by references to different cultures, they reflect the demographic ...

The article discusses the work of German historian Wolfgang Rothe which is valuable for onomastic research regarding the Protestant parishes in the area of the former East Prussia (now the area of the parishes lies partly ...