toponymy

branch of onomastics, study of place names

Class type of: onomastics, language geography, historical geography Q485762

Facts

8 properties

Instance of: field of study
Subclass of: onomastics, language geography, historical geography
Described by source: Nordisk familjebok, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Glossary of Terms for the Standardization of Geographical Names^[5]^[6]^[7]
Different from: toponomics^[8]
Is the study of: toponym^[9]
P14541: KGC2z^[11]
P14840: 26^[12]
Practiced by: toponymist^[10]

🏷️ Also known as

en toponymics en toponymy en toponomastics ar اسم مكاني ar علم أسماء المكان ar طوبونيميا ar علم مكان ar الطوبونيميا ar علم أسماء الأماكن cs toponomastika cs toponymie da stednavneforskning da toponymi da toponomastik de Toponymie de Ortsnamenkunde de Ortsnamenforschung el τοπονυμία es onomastica geografica es toponímico

🔖 Identifiers · 49

Library of Congress authority ID: sh85136092
GND ID: 4172891-9
OpenAlex ID: C116856471
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Col de Port.jpg ↗
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID: 294932062
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID: 300054272
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/12464
BBC Things ID: c5f3b21f-9d4f-4871-b2c2-13b34cfc1d93
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 17025
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 119750909
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID: place-names
Dewey Decimal Classification: 910.014

Show all 49 identifiers +37

Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID: toponymy
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID: 193050
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID: 576024
Encyclopedie berbere keyword ID: 313
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: science/toponymy
Encyclopædia Universalis ID: toponymie
FAST ID: 1152700
Freebase ID: /m/012ctt
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID: toponimia-2
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme): 0146854
Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID: 12223
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID: toponymi
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 4197585
HDS ID: 007855
Harper's tag: toponymy
KBpedia ID: Toponymy
Krugosvet article (archived): gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/TOPONIMIKA.html
LEM ID: LEM201008868
Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID: 3313
Lex ID: toponymi
Library of Congress Classification: G100.5
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 116856471
NL CR AUT ID: ph116464
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007541465305171
National Library of Latvia ID: 000332111
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 509401
PACTOLS thesaurus ID: pcrtxirQzRy18W
Quora topic ID: Toponymy
SVKKL authority ID: 0279298-toponomastika
Topic's main category: Category:Toponymy
Treccani ID: toponomastica
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID: toponomastica
U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10644097
UK Parliament thesaurus ID: 92454
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID: toponimika
WikiKids ID: Toponymie
Yale LUX ID: concept/8dc157ef-b17f-4f8d-9424-7b4136bf460b

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🔗 Connections

← Field of work 15

United States Board on Geographic Names, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Frank Stenton, Vittore Pisani, Aleksandr Matveyev, Alfredo Torero, Georgy Kert, Permanent Committee on Geographical Names +7 more

← Main subject 5

The Meaning of Liff, Kadokawa Nihon Chimei Daijiten, Names of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Onomasticon (Eusebius), Câmara de Lobos - Dicionário Corográfico

Has these parts 2

hydronymy, Llan

Subtypes 2

terminology of the Low Countries, Celtic toponymy

← Category combines topics 2

Category:Names of places in Germany, Category:Names of places in Italy

Belongs to 1

onomastics

Described by source 1

Nordisk familjebok

Examples 1

Krajina

Instance of 1

field of study

Is the study of 1

toponym

Subclass of 1

onomastics

Topic's main category 1

Category:Toponymy

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Toponymy

← Facet of 1

Geographical name changes in Greece

← Interested in 1

Carlo Battisti

← Studied by 1

toponym

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Summary

toponymy is a field of study^[1]. toponymy is a type of onomastics^[2], language geography^[3], and historical geography^[4].

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Class ancestry

[1] ↑ toponymy is an instance of field of study (Q1047113) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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9w ago · Maxime Ravel · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Subclass of → onomastics, language geography, historical geography

Harper's tag → toponymy

P14840 → 26

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14840: 26"
13w ago · 총체적난국 · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Subclass of → onomastics, language geography, historical geography

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: language geography"
17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗

P14541 → KGC2z

"/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗

SVKKL authority ID → 0279298-toponomastika

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0279298-toponomastika, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
26w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Has part(s) → —

"/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Has part(s): hydronymy"
26w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Described by source → Nordisk familjebok, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Glossary of Terms for the Standardization of Geographical Names

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: Glossary of Terms for the Standardization of Geographical Names"
26w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Has part(s) → —

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s): hydronymy"

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