Microtoponymy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The study of nomenclature of small local places such as mountains, fields, or sections of forests. uncountable

    "The Christian chronicler obviously did not “recognize” the Biblical name in the Kievan placename: evidently, the mountain—name Khorevitsa had been deeply rooted in the pre-Christian Kievan microtoponymy;"

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"The Christian chronicler obviously did not “recognize” the Biblical name in the Kievan placename: evidently, the mountain—name Khorevitsa had been deeply rooted in the pre-Christian Kievan microtoponymy;"

Etymology

From micro- + toponymy.

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