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Names Of Europe. Endonyms, Czech exonyms, standardized forms, variants.

The publication from the UN Geographical Names Gazetteers series contains systematically collected names from the territories of all European states and includes endonyms and, in part, exonyms (in Czech and in European UN languages) for almost 12 000 geographical objects from the following categories: administrative units, settlements, terrain, hydrography, landscape, territories and others. To facilitate searching for names in endonymic form and in various scripts, the publication is available in digital form only, in PDF format. It follows the Index of Exonyms. 1st edition. ISBN 978-80-88197-33-1. Price: 100 CZK.

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Abstract: The publication from the UN Geographical Names Gazetteers series contains systematically collected names from the territories of all European states and includes endonyms and, in part, exonyms (in Czech and in European UN languages) for almost 12 000 geographical objects from the following categories: administrative units, settlements, terrain, hydrography, landscape, territories and others. To facilitate searching for names in endonymic form and in various scripts, the publication is available in digital form only, in PDF format. It follows the Index of Exonyms. 1st edition. ISBN 978-80-88197-33-1. Price: 100 CZK.
Purpose: The publication with a list of geographical names of European territories - endonyms and exonyms, is suitable for everyone who comes into contact with geographical names - geographers, cartographers, historians, linguists, journalists, radio and television editors and announcers etc.
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City: Praha 8
ZIP code: 182 00
Country: Czech Republic
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