Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39
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Author(s)Patrick Sims-Williams
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1405145706
ISBN-139781405145701
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Sales Rank3,181,796
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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An original study revealing the history of place-names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from to Andalusia the Black Seas. * Includes numerous original maps and uncovers new methodology for linguistic geography * Uses a dataset of over 20,000 names recorded by Greek and Latin authors such as Polybius, Caesar and Tacitus and by early geographers such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and the Ravenna Cosmographer * A significant work for archaeologists, historians and philologists studying the early distribution of Celtic and other Indo-European languages