new referents of street names in the 19th c. - East-Central Europe and overseas colonies in comparison
Description
The database complements my paper "Poets and Admirals: The formative period of street renaming in East-Central Europe, in a colonial mirror". It provides data for comparing the artificial street names introduced in the 19th century (until 1914) in colonial cities and the contested national borderlands of East-Central Europe. The larger file lists the referents of public places by cities, arranged by the various empires. Cities of the Kingdom of Hungary are contained in a separate file.
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For most cities, the data were taken from contemporary maps (the closest preceding 1914), and for a minority of them, from local historiography, specialized onomastic literature and the announcement of name changes in the press. The sources are credited at the end of the paper.