What’s behind the name? Praha, Vltava and other Czech toponyms

0502709 - ÚJČ 2019 RIV DE eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Harvalík, Milan
What’s behind the name? Praha, Vltava and other Czech toponyms.
A Survey of Exonym Use. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2018 - (Jordan, P.; Švehlová, I.; Woodman, P.), s. 27-32. ISBN 978-3-8300-9997-0.
[UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting /19./. Praha (CZ), 06.04.2017-08.04.2017]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378092
Klíčová slova: Czechia * toponyms * history of settlement * language contacts
Obor OECD: Linguistics

The territory of Czechia, i. e., Bohemia, Moravia and the Czech part of Silesia has always been one of those areas where the members of different nations and ethnic groups meet. This fact is also reflected in Czech toponymy, where we can designate several layers of names of foreign origin. The paper describes the history of the settlement of the Czech territory and its influence on the system of Czech toponyms and explains the origin and meaning of some Czech toponyms.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0294851