Place Names of Brazil : Research, Reflections and Important Aspects
| Autor: | Paulo Márcio Leal de Menezes, Cláudio João Barreto dos Santos |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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| Zdroj: | Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, Vol 58, Iss 2, Pp 193-200 (2006) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0560-4613 1808-0936 15163261 |
| Popis: | Place names are testimonies of culture settlement and occupation of a territory. The historical study of the toponimy, which the term geonimy will be associated from now, allows establishing the genealogy of human occupation, as well as showing an evolution of area occupation, through its density.The natural link between Geonimy and Cartography goes to historical and old maps study, once they are characterized as temporary storage files.This paper aims to show the importance of place names study in all relevant aspects, as well as to motivate the retaking studies and researches on Brazilian Geonimy. In this way, the researches will be taken cartographical, geographical, historical, ethnographical and etymological aspects of geonimy in Brazilian territory genesis. It will be considered also geographical indications and its economical importance.At the end it is showed the importance to creating a National Authority of Geographical Names in Brazil , coming to normalize and to protect the national geonimy. |
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