Fundstelle fuer lateinische Ortsnamen

[Ulrich Korwitz <Ulrich.Korwitz _at__ Uni-Koeln.DE>]

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" Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 17:29:39 -0500
From: petworth _at__ suba.com (Bill Thayer)
Subject: Latin Place Names File

Thanks for the additional resource.  There are two other very major Latin
placename files on the Net; from the RomanSites-L archives:

RESOURCES: PLACENAMES
   <23-13> Latin Names of Printing Towns
           Dr David Shaw <D.J.Shaw _at__ ukc.ac.uk>
http://crane.ukc.ac.uk/semls/cathlibs/towns.htm
LVIS:4/10/97  LANG:E+L
PRI: placenames
  Useful! list of 817 European towns with their modern and Latin names.  This
should only be used, however, in the Latin-to-modern direction, since many of
the Latin names are mediaeval, and some are not Latin at all (e.g.
_Sainctes_): i.e., if you want a Roman-period name when you know the modern
one, this is not reliable; but if you have a Roman name and need to know the
modern name, with luck it may be on this list.  NB: see also much larger list
at RS 57-3

RESOURCES: PLACENAMES
   <57-3> Orbis Latinus
http://kwaziwai.cc.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html
OR
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/conents.html
LVIS:4/29/97  LANG:G (but mostly L placenames)
:CSTR:  Thru letter T only

To which it may be useful to add these 2:

RESOURCES: PLACENAMES
   <59-18> Roman Place Names
           Mike Saunders <csaunders _at__ vision.net.au>
http://www.vision.net.au/~csaunders/mainpage.index.html
LVIS:4/29/97
:CSTR:  For now, Britain, Germany and Spain; France & Italy to come.

   >> Britain: 209 places are listed.  Not all towns, some are rivers and
ocean features; 6 are linked offsite to the appropriate website.  One
idiosyncratic but interesting link to the writing tablets of Vindolanda.

Each placename equivalence is given sources: Ptolemy's Geography, Notitia
Dignitatum, Ravenna Itinerary, Antonine Itinerary, Peutinger Tables,
epigraphic sources, "other literature"

A spotcheck (Britain, ancient names beginning with G) against Orbis Latinus
(RS 57-3) shows this to be a valuable resource: 4 places are not found in
Orbis, 2 match or are variants, 1 is different.

   >> Germany: 30 places
No sources yet; appears to include some mediaeval names.
   >> Spain (should be "Iberia", since Portugal included): 128 places
No sources yet.

RESOURCES: LATIN
   Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
   Chuck Griffith <chuckg _at__ winternet.com>
http://www.winternet.com/~chuckg/dictionary.html

Derivation and meaning of adjectives in botanical Latin; some placename
derivatives.

Bill Thayer
RomanSites-L "





Ulrich Korwitz
ZBMed Koeln