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Appellatives in Toponymy of the Stolac Area

Stolac is a little town in Lower Herzegovina and the center of the town district of the same name in the Hercegovacko-Neretvanska County. Since the Stolac area, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina in general, was not systematically researched by onomasticists, a more thorough approach was necessary. Thus this paper employs mostly fi eld research …

Toponimy of Stomorska on the Island of Šolta

This paper presents the results of the field research conducted on the island of Šolta. It offers the etymology survey of the toponymy of Stomȏrska, never argued, nor thoroughly described before. The obtained results have been compared to the cadastral data and analyzed, using the descriptive method. The paper presents the brief overview of the …

Coastal toponyms of Romance origin on the island of Žirje

This article has been focused on the etymology of the coastal toponyms of Romance origin on the island of Žirje. For some of the names, new etymological solutions have been proposed while those missing from the onomastic literature are being studied for the first time. The results are based on research field trips, by interviewing …