REVIEW OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY AND TOPONOMASTICS

Print ISSN: 1842-8479

Electronic ISSN: 2393-4255

Publisher: Editura Universității de Vest din Timișoara

The journal is owned and managed by Department of Geography, West University of Timișoara, Romania

Description

An international annual, Review of Historical Geography and Toponomastics publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and toponomastics fields. As well as publishing original research papers of interest to a wide international and interdisciplinary readership, the review encourages debates over new challenges facing researchers in the field and discussion of conceptual and methodological issues. Each issue includes a book review section.

It encourages high quality scholarship on a broad range of historical geography and toponomastics topics.
Themes covered in the Review include:
•The geographies of places in the past
•The dynamics of place, space and landscape
•The geographies of place-names
•Methodological problems in historical geography
•Landscape, history and environment

The journal publishes high quality papers that make a new contribution to the understanding of historical geographical systems. The editors invite submissions dealing with theory, methods and models of spatial analysis. The journal has a multi-disciplinary outlook and includes contributions from geography, history, economics, environment and onomastics.

This is an Open Access Journal

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Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please be advised that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media or circumstances.

Editor in Chief

Remus CREŢAN
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara, Romania
e-mail: remus.cretan@e-uvt.ro; cretan.remus@gmail.com

Editorial advisory board

Prof. dr. Peter JORDAN
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, University of Wien, Austria
Email: peter.jordan@oeaw.ac.at

Prof. dr. Leo PAUL
Department of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Email:leo.paul@uu.nl

Prof. dr. Paul WOODMAN
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, The Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
Email: woodman@litstad.u-net.com

Dr. Bogusław R. ZAGÓRSKI
Institut Ibn Khaldun, Piastów, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland
Email: boguslaw.zagorski@transmontana.pl

Dr. Emilia SARNO
University of Molise, University Online Pegaso, Italy
Email: emilia.sarno@unimol.it emilia.sarno@tiscali.it

Dr. Philip W. MATTHEWS
Independent Researcher, New Zealand

Email: philmatthews19@hotmail.com

Prof. dr. Remus CREŢAN
Department of Geography, West University of Timişoara, Romania
Email: remus.cretan@e-uvt.ro

Prof. dr. Nicolae POPA
Department of Geography, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Email: nicolae.popa@e-uvt.ro

Prof. dr. Petru URDEA
Department of Geography, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Email: petru.urdea@e-uvt.ro

Prof. dr. Ion NICOLAE
Faculty of Geography, University of Bucureşti, Romania

Email: ionnicolae1945@yahoo.com

Conf. dr. Voicu BODOCAN
Faculty of Geography, University “Babeş-Bolyai”, Cluj-Napoca

Email: voicu.bodocan@ubbcluj.ro

Conf. dr. Sorina VOICULESCU
Department of Geography, West University of Timişoara, Romania
Email: sorina.voiculescu@e-uvt.ro

Lect. dr. Ionel BOAMFĂ
Faculty of Geography and Geology, University Al. I. Cuza of Iaşi, Romania
Email: ionel_boamfa@yahoo.com

Lect. dr. Ioan Sebastian JUCU
Department of Geography, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Email: ioan.jucu@e-uvt.ro

Lect. dr. Ana-Neli IANĂŞ
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: ana.ianas@e-uvt.ro; anaianas@yahoo.com

Asist. Dr. Claudia DOICIAR
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: claudia.doiciar@e-uvt.ro

Co-editors
Dr. Ana-Neli IANĂŞ
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: ana.ianas@e-uvt.ro; anaianas@yahoo.com

Dr. Ioan Sebastian JUCU
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: ioan.jucu@e-uvt.ro; sebastianjucu@yahoo.com

Dr. Claudia DOICIAR
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: claudia.doiciar@e-uvt.ro

Technical editors
Drd. Vlad CUMPĂNAȘ
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: vlad.cumpanas@e-uvt.ro

Book reviews editor
Dr. Ioan Sebastian JUCU
***The front cover is part of the map made by Fr. Schwanz (18th century), cited by Ion Conea (1938), “Corectări geografice în istoria românilor”

Editorial Committee Address
WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMIŞOARA
Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography
Department of Geography
B-dul. V. Pârvan, nr. 4
RO-1900 TIMIŞOARA, ROMÂNIA
Fax: 00 40 0256 490333

Submission and correspondance

Articles should be submitted electronically to following adress: remus.cretan@e-uvt.ro.

Instruction for authors

1. Full articles published in Review of Historical Geography and Toponomastics should not exceed 12,000 words (approximately 22 pages in print). Research notes and comments should not contain more than 3,500 words, and book reviews should not be more than approximately 900 words. For manuscripts that that are longer, shortening before submission increases the chances of acceptance.
2. The form and content of the manuscript should be carefully checked to exclude the need for corrections at the proof stage. Manuscripts must be typed on one side of the paper only, with wide margins, and double line spacing. References, tables and figure legends should be typed on separate sheets.
3. The first manuscript page should provide the title, names of all authors, affiliations, any footnotes to the title, address to which proofs are to be sent, a short running title, and the fax number and/or e-mail address of the corresponding author in order to accelerate communication.
4. Each paper is to be preceded by a short abstract, which should not exceed 150 words. Up to five key words should also be furnished as well as The Journal of Economic Literature index number(s).
5. Footnotes to the text should be avoided as much as is reasonably feasible.
6. The list of references should be in alphabetical order and include the names and initials of all authors (see examples below). Whenever possible, please update all references to papers accepted for publication, preprints or technical reports, giving the exact name of the journal, as well as the volume, first and last page numbers and year, if the article has already been published or accepted for publication. When styling the references, the following examples should be observed.
7. Figures are to be numbered consecutively. Preferably, the figures should be professional quality computer graphics, as output by standard office software or plotting packages. If possible encapsulated Postscript graphics should be imported into the manuscript in the places where they are intended to appear. On acceptance, authors will be requested to supply these Postscript files separately. Figures should be captioned informatively, so that they can be understood without referring to the text.
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10. A PDF file of the page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author by e-mail. The provisional page numbers given in the proofs may be referred to during the correction procedure. However, the final page numbers are inserted by the publisher when an issue is ready to go to press
11. A PDF offprint is supplied for each author for his own personel use. Orders for additional offprints at the contributor’s own expense can be placed by returning the order form with the corrected proofs.

Before sending the paper for consideration to be published in RHGT, please be advised to use the RHGT template (download it from here).

Peer-Review

RHGT uses double-blind peer review. This means the identities of reviewers and authors are not known to each other. Papers will be sent to two reviewers, who will be asked to evaluate the extent to which papers make a substantial contribution to advancing theoretical and methodological understanding of historical geography and toponymy. Editor-in-chief or the handling editor checks reviewers not to work in the same institution with the authors. Papers are currently taking approximately 4 months from submission to first decision. Since 2015 the language of the papers is exclusively English.

Link to peer-review form

Publication ethics and malpractice

RHGT’s editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. RHGT and/or its editors does not encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place. In the event that RHGT’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editors shall deal with allegations appropriately. The journal should retract or correct articles when needed. RHGT’s publisher and editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

For more details on journal’s ethics, please read RHGT’s Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

Guidelines for Book Reviews

Review of Historical Geography and Toponomastics publishes reviews of recent books and monographs dealing with topics relevant to historical geography scientists. Book reviews are aimed at providing a very useful contribution to scholarship in the field of regional science. Your assistance in accomplishing this goal is deeply appreciated. Avoid a detailed description of the book’s content and lengthy quotations from the book, critically and thoughtfully evaluate the success of the book regarding its stated goals and its contribution to the field, analyze the function, use and content of the book and avoid a detailed description of the book.
The review should be up to 800 words. The header should include the following information: Title. Author(s). Location: Publisher, Year of Publication. Pages, information on diagrams, tables, references, index. Price. ISBN
Please send your review to: sebastian.jucu@e-uvt.ro

Archive

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First page

Content

Foreword

Babatunde Adedayo OGUNDIWIN

Toponymic geographies in American southern Baptist maps: the Yorùbá landscape in the mid-nineteenth century

Shaun Tyan Gin LIM, Francesco PERONO CACCIAFOCO

Chains are king: A preliminary linguistic analysis of Singapore’s mid-tier hotel names

Kinga Xenia HAVADI NAGY

Do all roads lead to Rome? Place names and landscape elements in Romanian, Hungarian and German proverbs and sayings

Boon Yong TEO, Francesco PERONO CACCIAFOCO

The language of tourism: Linguistic landscape of tourist attractions in Singapore

Jorge M. SOBOTA

Santarém, the paradise of delights: Finding Strabo’s Mōron and its lost island, with a new etymology for Mōron

Emilia SARNO

Kindergarten and spatial experiences: Suggestions and proposals for a childhood education based on geography

Nicolae HURDUZEU

The toponyms, hydronyms and characters of the afterworld in the Roman culture

Ana-Neli IANĂȘ, Ramona IVAN

Post-communist land cover and use changes in Romanian Banat, based on Corine Land Cover data

Emilia SARNO

The enlightenment in Kingdom of Naples and the civil role of geography

Vlad CUMPĂNAȘ, Sorin PAVEL, Ioan-Sebastian JUCU

Residential induced demand or central attraction? The impact of Iulius Town in the development of Circumvalațiunii neighborhood in Timișoara


Book review:

Ioan Sebastian JUCU

Preserving and Constructing Place Attachment in Europe, by Oana-Ramona Ilovan, Iwona Markuszewska (Eds.)

Ioan Sebastian JUCU

Reconversia funcțională și regenerarea urbană a spațiilor industriale din orașele Banatului (Urban regeneration and functional reconversion of industrial spaces from the cities of Banat, by Liviu Jigorea-Oprea

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Contents

Foreword

Regular papers on Toponymy

WOODMAN Paul

The Toponymy of Absence

PERONO CACCIAFOCO Francesco

The town on the river’s bend: diachronic toponomastics under the lens of historical geography and etymology

PERONO CACCIAFOCO Francesco, CAVALLARO Francesco, KRATOCHVÍL František

Diachronic toponomastics and language reconstruction in South-East Asia according to an experimental convergent methodology: Abui as a case study


 

Special number: Transhumance – an old human activity in Italy

SARNO Emilia

Introduction to the special number

SARNO Emilia

The great transhumance and the settlement processes in the Mediterranean Europe during the modern age. A case study in the Kingdom of Naples

DI ROCCO Gabriella

Landscapes of Transhumance: ‘tratturi’ and fortified settlements in Molise from protohistory to Middle Age

CAMBI Franco, CITTER Carlo, CRISTOFERI Davide, DE SILVA Michele, GUARDUCCI Anna, MACCHI Giancarlo, PIZZIOLO Giovanna, SARTI Lucia, VANNI Edoardo, VOLANTE Nicoletta, ZAGLI Andrea

A cross- disciplinary approach to the study of transhumance as territorial identity factor in a long term perspective: the Tratto Project – Southern Tuscany paths and pastures from prehistory to the Modern Age

LANDI Fulvio, CALZOLAI Lidia

Transhumance routes in Tuscany. Cartography, place names, virtual landscaping

VANNI Edoardo

Mobility as a proxy for defining cultures: reconsidering identity and transhumance from a long-run perspective


 

Book review: JUCU Ioan Sebastian – Crişana-Maramureş. Geographical Atlas of Tourism Heritage


 

Supplemental material

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Contents

Foreword

Scientific Obituary for Professor David Turnock


 

Guest Paper on Arctic Canadian Toponomastics

CHAMPOUX J. Gilles

Toponymy and Canadian Arctic Sovereignty


 

Geographical Studies on Historic Houses in Sicily

FAMOSO Fabio

An overview of historic houses and landscape from Sicily

FAMOSO Nunzio

Impellizzeri Palace. Enhanced cultural heritage

NUCCIO Lucrezia

Ficuzza Royal Hunting Lodge: a royal presence in inland Sicily

COTUGNO Linda

The Beneventano Del Bosco Palace: one of the most beautiful historic house in the island of Ortigia

VECCHIO Grazia

Villa Florio from Favignana island: architectonic and functional history

D’URSO Andrea, LANZAFAME Iolanda Laura

The role of San Giuliano Palace in the urban design plan of Catania


 

Historical geographies: new trends in the Romanian research

LAZĂR Anton

The role of migration in the evolution of religious communities from the Banat Mountains (II)

MUREŞAN Şofronie, IANĂŞ Daniel Lucian

Representation of the Banat Mountains in the cartographic documents of the 18th Century

BACIU Mihaela Mirela

Changes in the geographical space of London due to the population migration. Migration spatial structures created by location distribution dynamics

COVACI Raluca

Denta and Birda communes – study of historical geography

CHIROIU Patrick

A review of Romanian dendrochronological approaches and future research perspectives for dendrochronology in Romania

RUSU Oliver

Related statistics to habitation in Transylvanian Basin during Neolithic – Latene period


 

Book reviews

ISSN 1842-8479

Special Issue on UN/ICA Week of Geographical Namesin Timisoara, Romania

Guest Editors: Ferjan Ormeling, Professor of Toponomastics and Cartography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Pierre Jaillard, Professor of Toponomastics, Sorbonne University, Paris, France; Paul Woodman, Professor of Toponomastics, London, UK

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Contents

Foreword

Toponomastics

Conference ‘UN/ICA Week of Geographical Names in Timisoara’

Jaillard Pierre

Exonymes et diversite culturelle

Ormeling Ferjan

Scenarios for National Atlas use

Woodman Paul

The spelling of the country name ‘Romania’ in British official usage: from uncertainty to standardization

Crljenko Ivana

Exonyms in Croation Lexicographical Editions: Some Dilemmas about their Uneven und Inconsistent Use

Zagorski R. Boguslaw

Exonyms in the Arab World – in Arabic and International Cartography

Bartos-Elekes Zsombor

The discussion on terminology of the terms Exonym and Endonym

Jucu Ioan Sebastian

A short analysis on the streets names from Lugoj – comparative aproach before and after 1990


 

Historical Geography

Muica Nicolae, Turnock David

“Tuica” in Romania: the Historical Geography of rural distilling

Linc Ribana, Marusca Angela Oana

Spas at the west of the country – past, present and future


 

Book reviews

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Special Issue on the Researches in the Southern Europe and Romania reflected in Place-names and Historical Geography

Guest Editors: Emili Casanova, Researcher on Toponomastics, Valencia, Spain; Martina Pertoldi, PhD student of Urbanism, Veneto, Italy; Jaco Woudstra, MBA student, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands

The third and fourth numbers (3-4/2007) of the review include a special issue on the Southern Europe and Romania reflected in Place-names and Historical Geography. There are three guest editors: Emili Casanova, researcher on Toponomastics, Valencia, Spain, Martina Pertoldi, PhD student of Urbanism, Veneto, Italy and Jaco Woudstra, MBA student, Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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Contents

Foreword

Toponomastics

Casanova Emili

Lexical contributions of the Valencian Toponymic Atlas (VTA)

Goicu Viorica

Castrum and Castellum in Romanian Toponymics

Nicolae Ion

Romanian Toponymy – Orientation Landmarks

Cretan Remus

Banat Toponymy – a short view on the origins of settlements in the eastern part of Timisoara


 

Historical Geography

Pertoldi Martina

Landscapes of production: an investigation into Italian industrial centers

Woudstra Jaco

Giving meaning to identities. A case-study for the Romanian Banat Region

Muica Nicolae, Turnock David

Historical Geography of the Pãtârlagele Depression: landscape and settlement in 1945

Stasac Marcu

Phases in the humanizing of the Cris Plain rural space since its appearance in documents

Pavel Sorin

The ethnic and religious variety of Arad city – a historical inheritance

Satmari Alina

Social compulsion and social identity through the urban morphology of the town Anina during the 20th century

Jucu Ioan Sebastian

The Geo-Historical reflection in the cultural landscape of Lugoj

Ianas Ana Neli, Dragan Daniela

The age and evolution of the settlements network in Almaj Land (15th – 20th centuries)

Zisu Ionut Dan

The history of pedological research in Banat


 

Book reviews

Special Issue on the Romanian Carpathian Basin viewed in Historical Geography, Toponomastics and Regional Growth

Guest Editors: Peter Jordan, Professor of Toponomastics, University of Viena and David Turnock, Professor of Regional Economics, Leicester, UK

This special issue contains a collection of papers that will both push forward the current frontiers of our knowledge regarding the relationship between historical geography, toponomastics and regional growth.The seven papers have all been independently and anonymously refereed and together they tackle different aspects of the relationships between historical geography, place-names and regional growth in the Romanian Carpathian area. Two papers analyse the specific roles played by toponyms in geographical processes. Five papers analyse the spatial adjustment processes of the population and economy in time, and the relationship between these adjustment processes and growth. The themes dealt with by the seven papers complement each other and produce a state-of-the-art analysis and overview of our current understanding of the various mechanisms by which history, toponymy and geography reveal economic growth.

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Contents

Foreward

Toponomastics

Jordan Peter

The Romanian Place Names Act and its Implementation Compared to Situations in Austria

Voiculescu Mircea

Relief shapes at the alpin level, revealed in the local toponimy of the Fagaras Massif


 

Historical Geography

Turnock David

Settlement History and Sustainability in the Carpathians in the Eighteen and Nineteen Centuries

Cretan Remus

The Evolution of the Cultural and Economical Activities in the DKMT Euroregion

Popa Nicolae

Hateg, a Basic ‘Country’ of Romania. The Evolution of its Means of Communication

Olaru Martin

Three Centuries of Hydrotechnical Constructions in Banat (I)

Linc Ribana, Getvan Andru

Nadrag Village – between the Power of History and the Geographic Destiny


 

Book reviews