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What is a place-name?

What is a place-name? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Alternative spelling of placename
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A specific name serves to restrict or modify the meaning of the place-name.
A major branch of study within archaeology that draws on archaeological, historical geography, human geography, ecology, anthropology, and place-name studies.
There is an expanded place-name index with more than 150,000 entries, and separate undersea, Moon, and Mars features.
The City of Chicago is an example of the prepositional place-name, but in common use the preposition and the generic are dropped.
These are looked up in a gazetteer, a place-name dictionary with over 10m entries, which knows, for example, that the Statue of Liberty is in New York.
In this regard, a variety of dual naming policies have been implemented and developed by various place-name authorities throughout the region.

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