The name "#India" was already used by the Ancient Greeks more than 2000 years ago, though some in the region associate it more now with the #UK's colonial subjugation of the country in the 1700s-1900s.

#geography #toponymy #namechange #Bharat #placenames #etymology @geography

#India made waves at the #G20 summit it hosted this weekend by using "#Bharat" instead of "India" as its country name in some English-language contexts. https://www.reuters.com/world/india/modi-uses-bharat-g20-nameplate-not-india-amid-name-change-row-2023-09-09/

"Bharat" is already India's name in most local languages, including Hindi, and is mentioned as a synonym of "India" in the English version of the country's constitution, but hasn't been used in formal international contexts until now.

#geography #toponymy #namechange #Bharat #placenames #etymology @geography

Digging up our Norse past
11 Sep, 6–7pm GMT, free online

This talk will delve deep into the #Norse substrate in #Scottish #placenames & analyse them through an interdisciplinary #linguistic, #onomastic, #social, & #historical focus, shedding some light on #Scotland’s #Viking past.

#Scottish #history #language

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digging-up-our-norse-past-tickets-670661024177

@daviddlevine In Sweden we've dealt with another transition: old established but ad hoc renderings of Sámi place names have been changed into correct Sámi orthography. A few weeks from now my kids and I are hiking to a place named Kårsavagge on old maps, Górsavaggi on new ones.

#sami #placenames

Saobhaidhean of the Gàidhealtachd | Scotland's Nature

Roddy Maclean explores the widespread presence of the element saobhaidh ‘animal den’ within the Highland landscape.

#gaidhlig #placeNames #Highlands #HighlandsOfScotland
#Predators #history #Scotland #nature

https://scotlandsnature.blog/2023/07/28/saobhaidhean-of-the-gaidhealtachd/

“... in so far as art brings out certain laws, once an industry has taken those laws and popularised them, the art that was first in the field loses retrospectively a little of its originality.” #MarcelProust #PlaceNames

Should be interesting, unfortunately, I cannot attend, as it clashes with another mapping event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/669312641127 #placenames #logainm #toponyms

The Champagne region of France is home to the villages of Bouzy, Fatcork, and Containsulphides.

#France #French #Champagne #villages #placenames #alcohol #QI #notQI

Still way nicer than Misery Corners.

#weirdsigns #placenames #humor #humour #funny

More of the Arctic was charted later than you might think. Diverging just in 1900, how different could the names on the map look...

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/06/18/arctic-toponymy-in-my-alternate-history/

This post's featured image is Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky's "Icebergs in the Atlantic"

#alternatehistory #worldbuilding #history #geography #toponymy #placenames #Arctic

#FingerPostFriday #Gloucestershire #Cotswolds #PlaceNames #Sunset

Just realized Oregon place names include: Hagg Lake, Hog Rock, and Hug Point.

Bonus points for whoever finds the missing Heg and Hig place names.

#Oregon #PlaceNames

This year's UPNS Spring Lecture is on Friday the 1st of June at 7:30. Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhghaill from the Placenames Branch will be presenting on ‘Microtoponymy in the Ordnance Survey Memoranda — a case study from the Dublin glens’. #PlaceNames https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-deirdre-flanagan-memorial-lecture-2023-tickets-619086523457

This is actually kind of fun. See how many cities share the same name. It also maps areas of knowledge, what surrounding parts of the country might mean when given a town name. For instance, search for Hurricane and much of the country might assume the Utah town, except for regions around similar towns in MO, WV, MS and AL.

#Geography #PlaceNames #Map

https://pudding.cool/2023/03/same-name/

Fun fact for my non-European friends: in the #BorderRegion between #France and #Germany the signs are French bit a lot of the #PlaceNames are German.

Bare trees in thick moss on our way to the hill. The area is Derroura woods, from Irish "Doire Abhra". Doire = woods, but I'm not sure about "abhra" – it's a form of "fabhra", which means eyelash or eyebrow. But "fabhra cnoic" = brow of hill, so maybe it refers to the crest of land overlooking the lake

#Irish #Gaeilge #PlaceNames #etymology #woods #trees #moss #mosstodon #WinterTrees #Connemara #hiking #walking

“...we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.” #MarcelProust #PlaceNames

“When the successive hours of our lives unfold as though on too widely disparate planes, we find that we give away too much of ourselves to all sorts of people who next day will not interest us in the least.” #MarcelProust #PlaceNames

@Twigs I love Watermillock. It features in my wet/not wet name game I play with my students! #PlaceNames

#WaymarkerWednesday

Just a little marker on my regular dog walk; I was struck by the green of it all.

Beyond, on the hill, is the 18th Century Hay Farm (the original farmhouse still stands as an outhouse), once known as Catford Law but renamed when the Hay family (Earls of Errol) took ownership of the estate through marriage in the early 19th Century.

#Northumberland #History #PlaceNames #walking