Toponomastics

Toponomastics: the study of place names.

  • Toponymy Simplified

    Toponymy is the study of place-names, including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponymic research is based on etymological, historical, and geographical information. It investigates the origin, meaning, usage, and types of toponyms (place names). This research draws upon linguistic analysis, historical records, and geographical context to understand how and why places were named the…

  • Judas Cave: A Fact or a Myth?

    Judas Cave is one of many karst passages and voids, inside Qarah Mountain, near Al-Hasa in Saudi Arabia. The legend has it that this cave is where biblical Judas Iscariot hid and died after his betrayal to Jesus Chris. This is not a new claim, local people in 1920s, linked this cave with biblical Abraham!…

  • Atlantic Semitic languages

    “Atlantic-Semitic languages” is the name of a hypothetical language group prominently postulated by the German linguist Theo Vennemann . According to this hypothesis, Germanic and Celtic languages ​​reflect influences from Afro-Asiatic languages , particularly Semitic languages , so that very early language contact can be assumed. Vennemann assumes the existence of an influencing language, which…

  • Chaldea and the Chaldeans

    According to the Jewish encyclopedia: “The Chaldeans were a Semitic people and apparently of very pure blood. Their original seat may have been Arabia, whence they migrated at an unknown period into the country of the sea-lands about the head of the Persian gulf.”. [01] Chaldea, their country. “In the early period, between the early…

  • The burial place of Abraham

    abraham burial site: The identification of biblical “Hebron” with “Hebron” of the West Bank, should not be taken for granted.

  • Characene Revisited

    After 129 B.C., with the decay of the Seleucid empire, a predominantly ethnically Arab kingdom arose in Lower Iraq,

  • Meaning and Etymology of Iraq

    Etymology of Iraq: “Iraq” is originally a colouronym, (a word that specifically identifies a particular color or hue). Iraq denotes a shade of color that is rather dark: grayish-black, dark-green or brownish-yellow.