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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foscue, Virginia O.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (185 pages).
ISBN:9780817388485

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