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One name one place? Dealing with toponyms in WWI

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In the framework of the commemorations for the First World War, a research project has been carried on in order to identify, archive and disseminate the places involved by the war along the Italian front. A task of this project foresaw the analysis of the terminological component of toponyms. All the occurrences of place names has been collected, evaluated and organised in order to fulfill the task of associate univocally one place name to a set of geographic coordinates, thus creating a specific geodatabase. Lexical, formal, linguistic and dialectal variants, homonyms, exonyms and even errors, once processed, lead to an unambiguous perspective on the use of toponyms during the war and their subsequent variations over the years.

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    Paolo Plini, Sabina Di Franco & Rosamaria Salvatori

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Plini, P., Di Franco, S. & Salvatori, R. One name one place? Dealing with toponyms in WWI. GeoJournal 83, 87–99 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-016-9760-9

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