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Introduction
Names and appellatives
The science of onomastics
- Categories of names
- Forms of personal names
The naming process
- Choice of personal names
- Choice of place-names
Historical and cross-cultural development of names
- Legal aspects of naming
- Personal names
  - European patterns of naming
  - Christian names
  - Family names
  - Other patterns of naming
- Place-names
  - Descriptive and commemorative place-names
  - Place-names reflecting historical influences

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