This volume includes materials of the eighth conference on onomastics (or onomasiology) held in the city of Volgograd in 1998. Onomastics, the study of origins and forms of words and proper names, is an interdisciplinary area at the boundary of linguistics, ethnology, geography, history, and folklore studies.
Collection of interdisciplinary studies in all-Russian and local geography, demography and history. Bibliographical references. Ethnic maps, etc. Glossy paper. (0.215 kg.)
[ Trip to Europe, Asia and Africa from 1394 to 1427 ] Москва: Elm, 1984 Язык: Русский
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Iogann Shil`tbereger (Johann (Hans) Schiltberger (1380 – c. 1440)), Bavarian officer from a noble family, spent 43 year in captivity. The traveler describes to the best of his ability the places he was in, the wars and military conflicts he saw, the political and religious traditions, etc.
[ Axioms of history: Analysis of the geography of antiquity ] Москва: Grifon, 2013 Язык: Русский
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The author thinks that before one starts to correct the historical chronology one should be certain about geography, because old maps are even more wrong than calendars or chronologies. Many modern historians are not aware of historical geography and its problems.
This collection celebrates the jubilee of Russian specialist in historic geography and toponymics, one of the most authoritative orientalists, Irina Gennadievna Konovalova. Contents: "Velikaia Armeniia i Iviriia": Evoliutsii geograficheskogo soderzhaniia toponimov; Sotsial`nyi aspekt osvoeniia prostranstva, ili gde napit`sia saratsinu?; Novgorodskii perechen` russkikh episkopii; Vostochnoslavianskie "plemennye soiuzy": Real`nost` ili letopisnaia legenda?, etc.