Polityka metonomastyczna niepodległej Grecji na przykładzie ojkonimii Krety

• Authors: Elwira Kaczyńska

Title variants

EN

The policy of independent Greece on changing place names as exemplified by Cretan oikonyms

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Soon after regaining independence (1830), the Greeks undertook efforts to rid their toponymical heritage of foreign names and to replace them with purely Hellenic oikonyms. Established in 1909, the ‘Renaming Committee’ made numerous decisions regarding local names throughout Greece, with 102 changes of place names on the island of Crete alone. In the present study, the author not only discusses the reasons for the elimination of the previous (foreign or ‘barbarous’) toponyms but also analyzes all of the new Cretan oikonyms introduced in 1920–1987 as a result of the planned Hellenization of geographical names.

Keywords

EN

Greek place names; Crete; renaming; toponymy

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 76-101
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Elwira  Kaczyńska

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic