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

A Druid gazetteer wrote twice a week the obscure annals of an unknown people possessed with the devil, and of celestial prodigies operated in garrets by little beggars of both sexes.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by