Leo Dillon Toponyms

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1. $
   The Name Game:
   Mapping Toponyms
   The Name Game:
   Mapping Toponyms
   Pecha Kucha • NACIS Minneapolis 2015
   Pecha Kucha • NACIS Minneapolis 2015
   

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2. $ $
   

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3. Chicago
   

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4. Script
   Language
   Disputed areas
   YeDebub Bihēroch
   Bihēreseboch na
   Hizboch Kilil
   Križišće
   Elâzığ
   Łęczna
   Ơdàðahraun
   Totally weird
   diacritic marks
   Totally weird
   native form names
   

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5. Mt. Diablo
    
    
   

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7. Perejil (Spanish name)
   Disputed
   features
   Leila (Moroccan name)
   MOROCCO  
   

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9. Vuzlove
   Uzlovoye
   Batovo
   Bátyú
   Vynohradiv
   Vinogradov
   Sevluš
   Nagyszolos
   ˝ ˝
   Ukrainian
   Russian
   Slovak
   Hungarian
   1867 - 1918
   Austro-Hungarian
   Empire
   1918 - 1945
   Czechoslovakia
   1945 - 1991
   Soviet Union
   1991 - Present
   Ukraine
   

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11. Before After
    

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14. Ahmadabad (Survey of India)
    Baluchistan (Survey of Pakistan)
    Ahmedabad (Local usage)
    Balochistan (Local usage)
    

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15. ş
    Bayt Lahm
    $ $
    

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16. Bangkok
    Finland
    Algeria
    Faroe Islands
    Mount Ararat
    Euphrates River
    Krung Thep
    Suomi
    Al Jaza’ir
    Føroyar
    Agrı Dagı
    Nahr al Furat
    

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17. Mont Blanc Sierra Madre Iwo Jima Ile de France
    Taymyrskiy Poluostrov Gambēla Hizboch Kilil
    Changbaishan Ziranbaohuqu Batys Qazaqstan Oblysy
    Taymyr Peninsula Gambela Peoples State
    West Kazakhstan Oblast
    Changbaishan Nature Reserve
    

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18. Rybinskoye Vodokhranilishche
    Рыбинское Водохранилнще
    Rybinskoe Vodohranilišče
    ‎ﺽضﺍاﻱيﺭرﻝلﺍا Ar Riyād
    ¸ Riyadh
    

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19. Đîåçŕıţïċãł mâřķś
    and
    ŋøή-§τάиðдгδ
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    Þuriđarvæten Thành Phố Ðà Nẵng G nc
    e
    (Iceland) (Vietnam) (Azerbaijan)
    e
    Ðeneral Janković
    $ $
    

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20. Skwmciné Mqwmoqw vs. Sacajawea Peaks
    Méeχsem héepey vs. Findley Buttes
    Salish language
    Cayuse/Nez Perce language
    (Idaho/Montana border)
    (Oregon)
    

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