Words similar to place-name

Example sentences for: place-name

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' My further point is that to be totally successful, a dictionary of this kind requires far more than the academic skills of a place-name specialist.
This is especially interesting in view of recent place-name changes in Russia, whereby Tsaritsyn was changed to Stalingrad , then again to Volgograd . Likewise St. Petersburg became Petrograd and later Leningrad . Even in America, politics change, and people go in and out of favor.
So despite more than 200,000 populated place names recorded in the Omni Gazetteer , there are still many areas of the country where the place-name cover is thin.
Dr. Frank R. Abate, who has been conducting research for a comprehensive place-name catalogue, has sent us a listing of some interesting names in the U.S. that raises some questions.
If such a work is really to do its job--tell the story of a place-name in simple terms to an average reader--a great deal of further thinking needs to be done by the editorial team about how the information is presented and for whom.