Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus: Register and Indexes

Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus: Register and Indexes
ISBN-10
0816657718
ISBN-13
9780816657711
Category
History
Pages
410
Language
English
Published
1969-07-16
Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Authors
Demetrius J. Georgacas, William A. McDonald

Description

Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This work contains listings, in Greek, of nearly 10,000 place names collected in approximately 300 settlements of regions in Peloponnesus, the southern peninsula of Greece. In their introduction the authors point out that the present-day toponyms reflect historical and linguistic developments through the ages and thus provide important source material for scholarly studies. Inhabitants of the region whose language was ancient Greek, Koine Greek, Byzantine Greek, South Slavic, Frankish, Venetian, Albanian, Turkish, or Neo-Greek have all left discernible traces in the local place names. The book will be useful not only to specialists in onomastics and linguistics but also to historians, archaeologists, geographers, and other researchers in Greek and comparative studies.

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