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January 18

Old useful geography encyclopedia?

Not sure if I should ask this here or in the Humanities section. I have been researching and recording exonyms for various major cities and towns across Europe in multiple European languages, most particularly the ones that are not used anymore and have sufficient differences from their respective endonyms in term of spelling and/or pronunciation. Of course, I believe I have already went through all the exonym lists and relevant articles for cities in all the Wikipedias for languages I am concerned with (as of now: Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish). While they give me a lot of great ones I am looking for, I am sure that they are still very much incomplete. One lucky find I came across while browsing the Italian Wikipedia is this early modern Italian geography encyclopedia. Link: https://books.google.it/books?id=fsHY3KDbcmEC

Needless to say, it is very comprehensive containing ton of Italian names for cities and regions across Europe that have not been in use for centuries and so it is a goldmine for my research. Is there any similar books like this that is easily accessible for the languages I have listed above? 70.95.44.93 (talk) 09:04, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

am on mobile so can't do proper search, but fyi quickly found some old french atlases by searching google books for the french term for "atlas". Here's one from 1762. interesting project! 70.67.193.176 (talk) 19:25, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

List_of_Latin_names_of_cities might be interesting to you. There's a similar page on the Latin-language Wikipedia that I couldn't find. Temerarius (talk) 01:01, 20 January 2020 (UTC)