Place-Name Changes, 1900-1991

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New in paperback! Contains over 4,500 name changes worldwide, ranging from small villages to entire countries. Reference libraries will find this a most useful acquisition as it will serve as an authoritatively written gazetteer. - LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD Paperback edition available August 2002.

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... Reference libraries will find this a most useful acquisition as it will serve as an authoritatively written gazetteer..... -- John Denton
... unique in its presentation........ -- Jeris Cassel

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Adrian Room (MA, Oxford) is the author of about 35 popular reference books, mainly on the origins of words and names. He has taught English and modern foreign languages at a number of schools and colleges, and in 1984 left his post as Senior Lecturer in Russian with the Ministry of Defence to pursue writing full-time. He has long specialized in the field of place names, and his first book on the subject (and his first book overall) was Place Names of the World (David & Charles, 1974). His recent publications include Dictionary of Place-Names in the British Isles (Bloomsbury, 1989) and Street Names of England (Paul Watkins, 1992). He is currently working on two new dictionaries of first names, and his largest work ever on the subject of names will be published as Brewer's Dictionary of Names (Cassell, 1992). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the English Place-Name Society and the American Name Society.