Place Names in Alabama

Place Names in Alabama is the first systematic attempt to account for all the names of the counties, cities, town, water courses, bodies of water, and mountains that appear on readily available maps of Alabama. In dictionary format, this volume contains some 2,610 place names, selected according to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Foscue, Virginia O.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Names, Geographical.
English language > Etymology > Names.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Noms geographiques > Alabama.
English language > Alabama > Etymology > Names.
Names, Geographical > Alabama.
Alabama.
Alabama > Histoire locale.
Alabama > History, Local.
Local history.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Place Names in Alabama is the first systematic attempt to account for all the names of the counties, cities, town, water courses, bodies of water, and mountains that appear on readily available maps of Alabama. In dictionary format, this volume contains some 2,610 place names, selected according to strict criteria as outlined in the introductions, from more than 52,000 available for the state of Alabama. Included in each entry is a description of the geographical feature, its exact location, the etymology of each name the feature has carried through the yea.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (185 pages).
ISBN:9780817388485

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