Category

Gazetteers

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Geographic Names Information System

geographical database

thumb|Ordnance Gazetteer for Scotland – title page

thumb|Worldwide density of GeoNames entries in 2006

database of geographical objects

are ancient reports on provincial culture, geography, and oral tradition presented to the reigning monarchs of Japan, also known as local gazetteers. They contain agricultural, geographical, and historical records as well as mythology and folklore. Fudoki manuscripts also document local myths, rituals, and poems that are not mentioned in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki chronicles, which are the most important literature of the ancient national mythology and history. In the course of national unification, the imperial court enacted a series of criminal and administrative codes called ritsuryō an

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

classical dictionary

Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland

book by Filip Sulimierski

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

authoritative international gazetteer containing all the Antarctic toponyms

Chronicles of Huayang

gazetteer of a region of China

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

thesaurus of geographic names by the Getty Research Institute

Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms

book by Wei Yuan

Yuanhe Maps and Records of Prefectures and Counties

gazetteer of China

The Meaning of Liff

humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology

San-on County Gazetteer

various versions of gazetteer for San On County, nowadays Hong Kong and Shenzhen

yuan era gazetteer, roughly in modern-day Shandong