Place Names
What a Place Name Can Suggest, and What It Cannot Prove
Learn how to read a place name as a clue to language or landscape, and separate a plausible interpretation from claims…
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Place Names
Look at the names attached to places, and the clues and limits they carry.
Our point of view
A map is a beginning, not the whole story
We look beyond lines and labels to notice how land and human choices give places their character. Every explanation aims to distinguish what a map shows from what it cannot tell us.