toponymy

While this doesn't split by toponymy, if you click on the towns, you'll find the toponyms explained.

Quite a few of those places became permanent settlements and the toponymy kept the -wik.

There's a field of study called toponymy, the study of place names.

The work on Korean toponymy is recent enough (and still ongoing) that it is missing in many older standard references for the history of Japanese.

You are right that little is preserved of certain ancient Balkans languages, but there is enough preserved in toponymy and onomastics in order to establish affiliations based on the reflexes of the PIE velar series and the vocalism.

The toponymy is strangely Albanian, like even the name of the Romanian capital "Bucharest" means "beautiful is" in Albanian.

:) In English toponymy "bury" refers to a fortified settlement, and "ness" is a promontory or headland.

I believe that the term you were looking for was toponymy, avoids the awkwardness of "geography, but off-earth": and join Pluto on the toponymic B-team.

That some extinct languages of the Korean peninsula were related to Japanese on the basis of toponymy, is now nearly universally agreed on among linguists, whether they accept the Altaic hypothesis (or the recent "Transeurasian" rebranding of it) or reject the Altaic hypothesis.

> The book also goes into details on how the border of the Roman world still today predicts the richest regions of Germany Just a couple of hours ago I was looking for a.kml or.geojson file of the Roman "limes", I was trying to prove its relationship to some toponymy-data from the Carpathians.

The toponymy is strangely Albanian, like even the name of the Romanian capital "Bucharest" means "beautiful is" in Albanian.

:) In English toponymy "bury" refers to a fortified settlement, and "ness" is a promontory or headland.

I believe that the term you were looking for was toponymy, avoids the awkwardness of "geography, but off-earth": and join Pluto on the toponymic B-team.

That some extinct languages of the Korean peninsula were related to Japanese on the basis of toponymy, is now nearly universally agreed on among linguists, whether they accept the Altaic hypothesis (or the recent "Transeurasian" rebranding of it) or reject the Altaic hypothesis.