Surf these sites: Belgium-Roots -- Placename index for Belgium. Finland, Toponyms Data Bank -- Set up by the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland French town locator -- IGN index to communes (towns/villages) of France IreAtlas Townland Database -- A very useful tool for research purposes. A search engine of the IreAtlas Townland data base. JewishGen ShtetlSeeker -- Town search for most of central and eastern Europe. Finds not only Jewish settlements, but virtually any location. MapSite - National Land Survey of Finland -- WWW map service and placename locator for Finland. Registration needed. Name Files of Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo -- Downloadable databases and documents prepared by NIMA (a US institution) at its GNS site. Nordic Place Names Database (NONDB) -- Registration needed. Data from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Place Name Board of Estonia -- The official body of this little nation could serve as a model for the study and standardization of place names. Also very interesting global information and links Place Names of Europe -- Main cities and features. Their origins, and forms in distinct languages. Maintained by Jacek Wesolowski and Jan Salm. Provence city location -- Locates places in the French region of Provence. Sorted alphabetically. Scottish Place-Name Society -- Gaelic name: Comann Ainmean-Aite Na h-Alba Slovakia Gazetteer -- On Line Encyclopedia of Slovakia Swedish Gazetteer -- The Swedish Gazetteer from the National Atlas of Sweden currently contains almost 60,000 locations in Sweden. A succesfull search shows county and municipality, as well as location on a map of Sweden. TORIS Project (Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia) -- Model of the place names database for the Northern European part of Russia (articles, search model; in Russian) The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker -- Locates not only Jewish settlements in Central and Eastern Europe, but other placenames also. Covers linguistic and historic variants for names. The Whole Basque Place-Name List -- Original Basque names for places that appear in French or Spanish in maps.
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