Open AccessMountains in the names of places and on the surface of Lithuania
Author(s) -
Filomena Kavoliutė
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
geografijos metraštis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2335-8610
pISSN - 2424-3434
DOI - 10.5200/gm.2020.5
Subject(s) - toponymy , lexeme , terrain , geography , archaeology , physical geography , cartography , linguistics , philosophy
The article presents the links between the place names of residential areas and the surface relief of their territories. Names with the lexeme kalnas (hill-, mountain-) were chosen for the study. In total, in Lithuania are about 250 of them. 50 villages with such names marking the surface mountainousness were analyzed. Topographic maps were used to clarify the features of the terrain, the transverse profiles of the surface of the areas were drawn, and a very variable change in the accommodation of the areas in the 20th century was analyzed. In some cases, archaeological data are also used.