#toponyms — Public Fediverse posts

Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 21 new and 50 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 9 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one user's contributions over the past few months (and continuing). Since joining the Pleiades team in 2025, Enes Yılandiloğlu has provided 488 new name entries for existing place resources (mostly in Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, and pre-19th century English), as well as 9 entirely new place resources.

Names: https://pleiades.stoa.org/search?Creator=enesy&portal_type%3Alist=Name&review_state%3Alist=published

Places: https://pleiades.stoa.org/search?Creator=enesy&portal_type%3Alist=Place&review_state%3Alist=published

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS #toponyms

The map can label #toponyms in #MinorityLanguages #IndigenousLanguages #AncientLanguages, like no other world atlas you’ve ever flipped through.

#localization #internationalization #multilingualism #WritingHistory

The map can label #toponyms in #MinorityLanguages #IndigenousLanguages #AncientLanguages, like no other world atlas you’ve ever flipped through.

#localization #internationalization #multilingualism #WritingHistory

The map can label #toponyms in #MinorityLanguages #IndigenousLanguages #AncientLanguages, like no other world atlas you’ve ever flipped through.

#localization #internationalization #multilingualism #WritingHistory

The map can label #toponyms in #MinorityLanguages #IndigenousLanguages #AncientLanguages, like no other world atlas you’ve ever flipped through.

#localization #internationalization #multilingualism #WritingHistory

The map can label #toponyms in #MinorityLanguages #IndigenousLanguages #AncientLanguages, like no other world atlas you’ve ever flipped through.

#localization #internationalization #multilingualism #WritingHistory

#30DayMapChallenge 2025 Day 1: points Inspired by my stay in Maastricht performing #CarminaBurana with #BrabantKoor & the Jussen Brothers. #toponyms ending in -tricht, -drecht, -trecht, derived from Latin #trajectum, meaning river crossing. Made with #QGIS #OpenStreetMap & @maptiler.bsky.social

#30DayMapChallenge 2025 Day 1: points Inspired by my stay in Maastricht performing #CarminaBurana with #BrabantKoor & the Jussen Brothers. #toponyms ending in -tricht, -drecht, -trecht, derived from Latin #trajectum, meaning river crossing. Made with #QGIS #OpenStreetMap & @maptiler.bsky.social

#30DayMapChallenge 2025 Day 1: points Inspired by my stay in Maastricht performing #CarminaBurana with #BrabantKoor & the Jussen Brothers. #toponyms ending in -tricht, -drecht, -trecht, derived from Latin #trajectum, meaning river crossing. Made with #QGIS #OpenStreetMap & @maptiler.bsky.social

#30DayMapChallenge 2025 Day 1: points Inspired by my stay in Maastricht performing #CarminaBurana with #BrabantKoor & the Jussen Brothers. #toponyms ending in -tricht, -drecht, -trecht, derived from Latin #trajectum, meaning river crossing. Made with #QGIS #OpenStreetMap & @maptiler.bsky.social

#30DayMapChallenge 2025 Day 1: points Inspired by my stay in Maastricht performing #CarminaBurana with #BrabantKoor & the Jussen Brothers. #toponyms ending in -tricht, -drecht, -trecht, derived from Latin #trajectum, meaning river crossing. Made with #QGIS #OpenStreetMap & @maptiler.bsky.social

#30DayMapChallenge 2025 day 1: points

Inspired by my stay in Maastricht performing Carl Orff's #CarminaBurana with Brabant Koor & the Jussen Brothers.

Today’s map shows Dutch place names ending in -tricht, -drecht, -trecht—derived from Latin Trajectum, meaning river crossing. #toponyms

Maastricht = Mosa Trajectum.

Made with #QGIS #OpenStreetMap and #vectortiles from @maptiler.bsky.social

🎟️ Still tickets for the amazing concerts weekend: https://jussenmaastricht.nl/

@girlbandgeek

Interesting article.

https://www.sfgate.com/california/article/divide-california-nickname-cali-20769494.php?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

What are your thoughts on "Cali"?

While you're at it, tell us your feelings about "Frisco", "San Fran", and "SF".

#California #Cali #Toponyms #AmericanEnglish #SanFrancisco #SanFran #Frisco #SF #CalifornianEnglish

#DH2025: Fascinating #CLS work on mapping fictional #toponyms in #CzechLiterature by Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc). Check it out: www.korpusprozy.com/03_ARBES/Car...

#DH2025: Fascinating #CLS work on mapping fictional #toponyms in #CzechLiterature by Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc). Check it out: www.korpusprozy.com/03_ARBES/Car...

#DH2025: Fascinating #CLS work on mapping fictional #toponyms in #CzechLiterature by Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc). Check it out: www.korpusprozy.com/03_ARBES/Car...

#DH2025: Fascinating #CLS work on mapping fictional #toponyms in #CzechLiterature by Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc). Check it out: www.korpusprozy.com/03_ARBES/Car...

#DH2025: Fascinating #CLS work on mapping fictional #toponyms in #CzechLiterature by Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc). Check it out: www.korpusprozy.com/03_ARBES/Car...

"To name is to claim". #Maps #toponyms https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/10/trump-maps-obsession-history-geopolitics-00339935

Oof. #Britannica renamed its article about *that* gulf into “Gulf of Mexico / Gulf of America”.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Gulf-of-Mexico-Gulf-of-America

Meanwhile, #Wikipedia still uses the prevailing name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico

#encyclopedias #toponyms

Gulf of Mexico

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gulf-of-mexico

#etymology #wordorigins #language #toponyms

#NotTheOnion

H.R.1161 - Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025

”To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland ‘Red, White, and Blueland’.”

🤦

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161/text

#Greenland #USCongress #toponyms #gischat #Denmark

This news is not really surprising given that #GoogleMaps already serves government-compliant borders and labels depending from where you are visiting.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24353450/google-maps-rename-gulf-of-mexico-america-mt-mckinley

#maps #cartography #toponyms #gischat #Google #GulfOfMexico

I had this interpretation while reading the EO, but it seems that the “Gulf of America” name only applies to the area inside U.S. 🇺🇸 EEZ + continental shelf and not the whole gulf. This is the same interpretation that @maproomblog states here: https://www.maproomblog.com/2025/01/naming-the-gulf/

This is analogous to the “West Philippine Sea“ name that the #Philippines 🇵🇭 uses to refer to its vicinity within the South China Sea and not to the whole sea.

#toponyms #GulfOfMexico

As an amateur cartographer/geographer, this executive order making “Gulf of America” an official name in the United States for the Gulf of Mexico makes my head hurt. 🤬

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness/

#toponyms #cartography #geography #GulfOfMexico #uspol

Some great news in the field of #toponyms.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2024/09/18/clingmans-dome-renamed-kuwohi-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-cherokee/75278028007/

#Tennessee #Appalachia

Wouldn't it be nice to call the islands in the pink zone on this map, here labelled as "South East Asia Isl.", Skaianesia instead?

σκαιός / skaios is the ancient Greek for west. The name I propose suits the group of islands that lie to the west of the other three named groups.

#SoutheastAsia #Placenames #Toponyms #AsiaPacificIslands #Geography #Onomastics

Useful for understanding the interactions between societies and their environments, the study of place names shows how place names are significant to the extent that people remember or forget them #toponyms

https://archeorient.hypotheses.org/26828

@statisticsworld

I can understand why so many Irish use "these islands" rather than "the British Isles".

Perhaps the UK and Irish governments could agree on a new geographical designation.

My suggestion: Islands of the North Atlantic.

I'm sure some pedants would object that some of these islands are not really in the Atlantic, but I think we could live with that.

I'm also sure Jacob Rees Mogg, the Daily Mail, and GB News would denounce such a change. In my book, that's all the more reason to go ahead.

I can imagine a ceremony taking place to celebrate the new name taking place on the island of IONA...
#Toponyms #BritishIsles #TheseIslands #Iona #IslandsOfTheNorthAtlantic

en. : interests :
#music
#traditionnalmusic
#ethnomusicology
#experimentalmusic
#soundscape
#freeimprovisation
#modularsynth
#fieldrecording
#occitan
#photo
#nature
#toponyms
#folklore
#storytelling

fr. : intérêts :
#musique
#musiquetraditionnelle
#ethnomusicologie
#musiqueexpérimentale
#paysagesonore
#improvisationlibre
#synthétiseurmodulaire
#occitan
#photo
#nature
#environnement
#toponymie
#contes

etc.

While looking into how Asturian towns happened in the places that they did (some in rather inhospitable spots) I happened upon this interesting article about Locational Fundamentals. Now I have to wonder what the path dependencies were to plop so many villages on top of hills with no water source.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/can-history-leave-towns-struck-places-bad-locational-fundamentals

#toponyms #village #asturias #settlement