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Can I read Place Names of the World : a Dictionary of Their Origins and Backgrounds on EtoBox?
Place Names of the World : a Dictionary of Their Origins and Backgrounds by Adrian Room is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Place Names of the World : a Dictionary of Their Origins and Backgrounds about?
"First published in 1997, the work in this new edition contains over 7,000 entries, including 1,000 new placenames from previously under-represented areas such as China and Japan. Entries cover natural features as well as manmade entities. Each entry includes the name of the feature; a brief description and its geographical location; and the origin of the name"--Provided by publisher.
- Author
- Adrian Room
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780207155390
- Subjects
- Travel, Anthropology, Humanities
Other editions & translations
- Placenames Of The World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for 6,600 Countries, Cities, Territories, Natural Features and Historic Sites, 2d edition (2013)
- Placenames of the World : Origins and Meanings of the Names for Over 5000 Natural Features, Countries, Capitals, Territories, Cities, and Historic Sites (1997)
- Placenames of the World : Origins and Meanings of the Names for Over 5000 Natural Features, Countries, Capitals, Territories, Cities, and Historic Sites (2003)
- Place-names of the World (1974)