Review article

Oikonymy of the Gospić area

Vesna Grahovac-Pražić orcid.org/0000-0003-3833-8405
Sanja Vrcić-Mataija orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-949X

Abstract

Insight into issues concerning the names of 50 settlements in the Gospić area, one of which is a town, is presented in the paper. In addition to a historical and geographical contextualization, oikonyms are analyzed semantically and structurally. The motivational and structural diversity of oikonyms is determined, which allows insight into the life of the community in the past.

Keywords

toponymy; Gospić; setlement names; semantics; structure

Hrčak ID:

79845

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/79845

Publication date:

29.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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