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Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39

Patrick Sims-Williams author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:5th Jun '06

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Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39 cover

An original study revealing the history of place-names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from to Andalusia the Black Seas.

  • Includes numerous original maps and uncovers new methodology for linguistic geography
  • Uses a dataset of over 20,000 names recorded by Greek and Latin authors such as Polybius, Caesar and Tacitus and by early geographers such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and the Ravenna Cosmographer
  • A significant work for archaeologists, historians and philologists studying the early distribution of Celtic and other Indo-European languages
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"Taken as a whole, this book is a triumphant vindication of the value of philology applied in a systematic and discerning fashion to a major historical problem." Antiquity

ISBN: 9781405145701

Dimensions: 234mm x 150mm x 24mm

Weight: 608g

424 pages