Place Names

• History
• Regional

• Reference: Maps 
• Science: Social Sciences: Language and Linguistics: Onomastics 

• BC Geographical Names  - Searchable database explores patterns, heritage, and naming policies.
• GeOnet Names Server  - Official repository of standard spellings of all foreign place names contains cross-references, and information about location, administrative division and quality.
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names  - Improves access to information about art, architecture, and material culture, and provides cataloging, retrieval and research tools.
• Minnesota Place Names  - Geographical encyclopedia from the Minnesota Historical Society offering lists of stories involving Minnesota place names and suggesting a personal connection to history.
• Place Names  - Gazetteer of countries, regions, cities, villages, towns, islands and other geographic and other place names in the United States. Includes maps and photos.
• Toponymy  - Contains research, section of thousand of names in dialect form from local inhabitants of Abruzzese and database of place-names from the classical Greek and Roman sources.