Using Place Names for Mapping the Distribution of Vanishing Historical Landscape Features: The<i>Agras</i>Field System in Northwest Spain

Calvo-Iglesias, María Silvia; Varela, Ramón Alberto Díaz; Martínez, Gonzalo Méndez; Paleo, Urbano Fra

doi:10.1080/01426397.2011.604716

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“…In this respect, three types of information can be extracted from toponyms: spatial locations, temporal information and landscape (Calvo-Iglesias, DÍaz-Varela, MÉndez-MartÍnez, & Fra-Paleo, 2012). Many landscape features can be reflected by toponyms, such as topography, settlement of ethnic groups (Situ, 1992), migration of people, religious and cultural traditions and local language (Evereet-Health, 2000).…”

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“…Research has been conducted to reconstruct past land use (Conedera et al, 2007), to identify the role of toponyms in soil classification (Siderius & de Bakker, 2003), to explore former floodplain connectivity using toponyms and to discuss the possibility of using toponyms as indicators of historical landscape features that have been transformed (Calvo-Iglesias et al, 2012;Sousa & Garcia-Murillo, 2001). These studies view toponyms as cultural and geographical characteristics and are based on the deconstruction of toponym structure.…”

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Toponym mapping: a case for distribution of ethnic groups and landscape features in Guangdong, China

2016

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Toponyms serve as symbols of regional culture and thus reflect the history, habitat and environment of a place. This study aims to (1) visualize the distributions of the four ethnic groups and landscape features in Guangdong of China using a toponym mapping method, of which results were presented at 1:6,400,000 scale and (2) to explore the changes by comparing contemporary data, of which results were presented at 1:3,200,000 scale. These maps provide a toponymic aspect to explore the historical evolution of ethnic groups and landscape features. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Toponym mapping: a case for distribution of ethnic groups and landscape features in Guangdong, China

2016

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“…Place name studies have investigated a variety of topics, including the reconstruction of settlement and migration histories (Arnold, 1977;Arge et al, 2005;Qian et al, 2016), the identification of past land uses (Conedera et al, 2007;Calvo-Iglesias et al, 2012), and regional and ethnocultural identity (Cooper et al, 2011;Fuchs, 2015;Weaver and Holtkamp, 2016).…”

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What do street names tell us? The ‘city-text’ as socio-cultural data

Oto‐Peralías

2017

Journal of Economic Geography

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This paper proposes the use of street names as a source of geographic-specific cultural data for quantitative analysis in social sciences. Street names reflect the cumulative commemorative decisions of municipalities and, as such, can be used as proxies for their social and cultural characteristics, which is particularly useful given the scarcity of cultural data at the local level. The utility of street names as a data source is illustrated through the study of religiosity and local economic development. The street-name indicator of religiosity is shown to be strongly correlated with the cultural factor it is supposed to capture, and appears to be negatively related to economic development at the local level. Finally, the article explores a range of other potential empirical applications to important topics in social sciences.

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“…Generally, toponymic research has focused on using toponyms to interpret land use changes, reconstruct historical land use, and analyze traditional practices [6,19,20], on constructing a database of historical and contemporary toponyms based on a genealogy GIS [21], on using toponyms to reveal climate changes [22], on analyzing the spatial distribution features of toponyms based on GIS, containing rural toponyms, dialectic toponyms, and ethnic minority language toponyms [23][24][25][26], on utilizing GIS technology to analyze toponymic landscapes [7,[27][28][29]. As a kind of "living heritages", toponyms storing data of local cultures and languages can act as a proxy for past situations and supply insight into the heritages of a certain region [6,23,[30][31][32][33][34].…”

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The Sustainable Development of Choronymic Cultural Landscapes in China Based on Geo-Informatic Tupu

Wang

Zhang

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Sustainability

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As a part of cultural landscapes, toponyms with abundant cultural connotations and a long history are valuable cultural heritage assets. Choronyms not only reflect natural and social phenomena but also help with relevant management and naming work. In order to explore the historical development sequence of choronymic cultural landscape evolution, we analyze the spatial–temporal pattern evolution, spatial–temporal variation, spatial association, and semantic evolution of choronymic cultural landscapes since the Qin dynasty. We adopt the sequent snapshot model and an event-based state amendment model to establish a spatio-temporal database. That can provide decision supports and theoretical reference for the sustainable development of toponymic landscapes. Results indicate the following: (1) Spatial distribution of toponym density has been different since the Qin dynasty. The cores of toponym density spread from the middle-lower reaches of the Yellow River to Yangtze Plain, Chengdu Plain, Pearl River Delta Plain. (2) Spatial distribution of choronyms is agglomerative since the Qin dynasty and uneven at national and provincial scales since the Yuan dynasty. Temporal distribution of toponyms at different levels is centralized. (3) Spatial agglomeration phenomena of toponyms are positively clustered in nine periods. The Ming dynasty presents the largest degree of spatial aggregation. (4) Words relevant to blessings, orientation, and hydrological features have high proportions in the top 20 words. (5) Spatial distribution of county-level choronyms named over the last 1000 years and “Millennium Ancient Counties” are unbalanced at national and provincial scales.

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Using Place Names for Mapping the Distribution of Vanishing Historical Landscape Features: TheAgrasField System in Northwest Spain

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Toponym mapping: a case for distribution of ethnic groups and landscape features in Guangdong, China

Toponym mapping: a case for distribution of ethnic groups and landscape features in Guangdong, China

What do street names tell us? The ‘city-text’ as socio-cultural data

The Sustainable Development of Choronymic Cultural Landscapes in China Based on Geo-Informatic Tupu

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