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

The nearest atlas or gazetteer is enough to check this statement.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring