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

Toponymic distribution of Scandinavian place names in Great Britain.

Used QGIS :qgis: and Ordnance Survey Gazeteer, crown copyright and database rights. Showing populated places and landforms.

England shows the Danelaw distribution across Cumbria and Yorkshire, but Orkney and Shetland are on fire. 🔥

Source: https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/guides/the-scandinavian-origins-of-place-names-in-britain/

#qgis #Toponymy

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

I had no idea so many Australian place names celebrated massacres and mass murders (and poisonings!) so transparently! Butcher’s Creek. Murdering Gully. Mount “Dispersion”… It’s not even “we like killers”. It’s literally “we love killing” all over the map 😳

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/10/why-stop-at-fraser-island-many-more-australian-places-should-have-their-offensive-names-changed

#histodons #australia #toponymy #colonialism

@wood5y @MickG59

No-one's claiming that the objectors are logical or consistent. (-:

Mind you, they do all seem related to that group who weren't giving their addresses on the ballot papers last Thursday. Perhaps they're all secretly living in 2nd homes and have just realized that they have to submit change of address cards to lots of returning officers.

#WelshLanguage #toponymy

@wood5y @MickG59

They might have a case.

Although the simple defence might in turn be that the Authority has the power under that Act to specify names in both English and Welsh, and it has chosen "Bannau Brycheiniog National Park" and "Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog" respectively.

If anyone challenges the idea of the former being English, all of the placenames in England that are in languages no-one even speaks any more will be a fun point.

#UKLaw #WelshLanguage #toponymy

@wood5y

The ironic thing is that most English place names are in languages that _nobody_ speaks, Late/Medieval Latin and Anglo-Saxon, and haven't been spoken everyday for roughly nine centuries.

#toponymy

#ISO appears to have changed SHORT name of the #Netherlands in its widely-used #countrycodes list from "Netherlands (the)" to "Netherlands (Kingdom of the)", making it same as the official long version name. This would usually follow a change at the UN. Anyone know what's going on?

https://iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:NL

#ISO3166 #geography #toponymy @geography @geopolitics @politicalscience

Pronya is the biggest arm of Oka river, going for 336 kilometres with several big towns and urban-type settlement of two regions located near it. Other than that there're many cultural heritage sites, nearby on Oka there're settlements from 3000 BCE. Pronya is pretty slow, with silted bottom (sometimes made of sand or stones), sadly the water level was greatly affected by the build of reservoir. River is a popular fishing place, with around 20 fish species living in it. Name Pronya has debated origins, some say it's linked to Czech "proný"-"fast", but there's a Baltic version too, assigned to different, more Western rivers with the same name, another Oka arm — Pra is said to come from Mordvinic languages where it means "head, main, upper".
#nature #NaturePhotography #iNaturalist #summer #Russia #photography #toponymy #summer #etymology #photograph #river #plants

Brodok river can hardly be called a creek, this is a spot between a big village Stepan'kovo and urochische Gavrilkovo (ex-village) that looks like an open field now. Both villages' names likely came from the names of their owners or their surnames (Stepan/Gavrila(-iil)), Brodok is an arm of Dubjonka river, it goes only for 12 kilometres. Name of the river comes from the "брод"-"ford", appealing to its small size.
#nature #NaturePhotography #iNaturalist #summer #Russia #photography #toponymy #summer #etymology #photograph #village #river #field #plants

From my winter visit of Novosaratovka as part of #iNaturalist villages project, the legend says name came from the fact that german colonizers were first thought to be settled in Saratov. German Novosratov colony was settled in times of Catherine II around 1760s and existed till 1942 when for obvious reasons it was deported. Now it mostly consists of new houses, many from my perspective of very well-off people, but some houses from the last century still remain, and likely there's something going as far as XVIII century if you look closely.
#nature #NaturePhotography #fall #river #Russia #photograph #etymology #toponymy #sunset

Sunset near Yelagin Island. First name of the island was Bear island as supposedly there were bears living on it, current name comes from one of the owners of it, Ivan Perfilievich Yelagin (1725-1794) who, to add, was a martinist. The river we see is a mouth of Bol'shaya Nevka, the longest arm of Neva river.
#nature #NaturePhotography #fall #river #Russia #photograph #etymology #toponymy #sunset

Lakhtinsky Razliv last February and the reason to visit it. The lake is actually pretty close to my family house, but the grebe was in the furtherest spot it could choose. Finnish name for the lake is Konnunlahti, were "lahti" is "gulf", so current name is "gulf gulf".
#nature #NaturePhotography #winter #lake #Russia #photograph #etymology #toponymy #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birds

Lakhtinsky Razliv last February and the reason to visit it. The lake is actually pretty close to my family house, but the grebe was in the furtherest spot it could choose. Finnish name for the lake is Konnunlahti, were "lahti" is "gulf", so current name is "gulf gulf".
#nature #NaturePhotography #winter #lake #Russia #photograph #etymology #toponymy #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birds

Izhora river near Kämärä village.
The village was inhabited by äyrämöisets, most of them were Lutherans, though some were in Orthodox churches. Name of the river comes from Izhorians.
You can read on toponyms with roots Izhor-/Izher- here https://alp.iling.spb.ru/articles/xvi2/12.ru.html
#nature #NaturePhotography #summer #trees #Russia #photography #etymology #river #village #toponymy

The most common #place #name in each #European #country

(Spain apparently doesn't have an obvious winner, so they had to not show anything. 10 different names had 3 cases each, making it impossible to pick one)

source and discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/10uc5sl/the_most_common_place_name_in_each_european/

#map #toponymy #toponym #europe

A couple of years ago this bit of #HistoricalMaps of #Ireland was floating around and my friends and I had fun trying to work out the place names. Any #mastodaoine want to help us complete the job?

#toponymy #PlaceNames

What we have:
Mapmaker probably Dutch going by the spelling. I’m sure someone will recognise the actual map, this is a small part of it but is all I’ve seen.

Bless the cartographer, he’s trying his best.

Look what I finally got my hands on @sjkpdx #portland #PortlandOregon #PlaceNames #Toponymy #onomastics

#etymology
#toponymy
#USA
#Manhatten
#NewYork