gazetteer
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I’m carrying my favorite gazetteer, discovered in a book store in nearby Rochester on a previous foray: Colonel W. Laurence Gadd’s “The Great Expectations Country,” published in 1929 and long out of print.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018
If knowledge is power, then the British government's secret gazetteer of the Gulf, known simply as "Lorimer" after its author, epitomises the scale of imperial ambition.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2014
The original resolution contained a list of other forgotten places in eastern Europe and Eurasia that today make it sound like a gazetteer of Middle Earth: Cossackia, Idel-Ural, Turkestan, White Ruthenia.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2014
In the UK, by contrast, the Ordnance Survey gazetteer has 250,000 place names and details - and is free, open data.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2012
Places not shown on this map can be located from directions given in the gazetteer.
From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by William E. Duellman
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