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Home / Science / Social Sciences / Geography / Place Names / Regional / Europe
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Web Sites
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- Belgium-Roots - Placename index for Belgium.
belgium.rootsweb.com/bel/_places/index.html
- French town locator - IGN index to communes (towns/villages) of France
www.ign.fr/MP/GEOD/geodesie/commune
- Geo Serv - Placename information service for Germany
www.genealogienetz.de/gene/misc/geoserv.html
- IreAtlas Townland Search - Search places in Ireland. Does not cover Irish-language (Gaelic) placenames.
www.seanruad.com
- Irish Placename Studies - Moderated Discussion - Moderated discussion group for the study of Place Names in Ireland & related topics, such as online databases, mapping etc. Part of the Irish Archaeology & History Mailinglist Suite.
groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Placename-Studies
- JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Town search for most of central and eastern Europe. Finds not only Jewish settlements, but virtually any location.
www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker/loctown.htm
- MapSite - National Land Survey of Finland - WWW map service and placename locator for Finland. Registration needed.
www.kartta.nls.fi/karttapaikka/eng/home.html
- Nordic Place Names Database (NONDB) - Registration needed. Data from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
www.nondb.nls.fi
- Place Name Board of Estonia - The official body of this little nation could serve as a model for the study and standardization of place names. Also very interesting global information and links
www.eki.ee/knn/index2.htm
- Place Names of Europe - Main cities and features. Their origins, and forms in distinct languages. Maintained by Jacek Wesolowski and Jan Salm.
www.p.lodz.pl/I35/personal/jw37/EUROPE/europe.html
- Scotplace - Forum for queries and discussion about all aspects of Scottish place-names.
groups.yahoo.com/group/scotplace
- Scottish Place-Name Society - Gaelic name: Comann Ainmean-Aite Na h-Alba
www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm
- Slovakia Gazetteer - On Line Encyclopedia of Slovakia
www.iarelative.com/e.htm
- Swedish Gazetteer - Search a list of almost 60,000 locations in Sweden. Results are shown with municipality and county, as well as the location on a topographic map of Sweden. (From the National Atlas of Sweden.)
www.sna.se/gazetteer.html
- The English Place-Name Society - Publishes the meaning and origin of English place-names county by county. Catalogue of volumes and other publications. Contents list of the Society's Journal. Information on membership.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/research/EPNS
- The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Locates not only Jewish settlements in Central and Eastern Europe, but other placenames also. Covers linguistic and historic variants for names.
www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker
- The Whole Basque Place-Name List - Original Basque names for places that appear in French or Spanish in maps.
www.geocities.com/CollegePark/5062/topo2.html
- Toponymic Guidelines for Germany - Guidelines for map and other editors on the German language toponymy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
www.ifag.de/Kartographie/Stagn/tr_engl/f_Empfnam_e.htm
- UK Placename and Street Gazetteers, Postcodes, Latitude & Longitude, Grid Coordinates and Addresses - UK information. Site includes explanation of UK Postcode system with maps, listings and PostTowns, plus National Grid coordinate system.
www.evoxfacilities.co.uk
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