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“Toponymic atlas of Spain” by Jairo Javier García Sánchez
“The Toponymic Atlas of Spain represents a novelty within the bibliographic panorama of Spanish toponymy. It is the first toponymic work in Spain as a whole that classifies and explains place names with the help of illustrative maps –89 in total– and from four different perspectives: the successive linguistic strata (pre-Roman, Roman, Germanic, Arabic, Romance toponyms… ), the complexity and interest offered by the various linguistic border areas (toponyms on the Galician-Asturian-Leonese, Spanish-Portuguese, Catalan-Aragonese borders...), the referential factors that give rise to place names (orotoponyms, hydrotoponyms, phytotoponyms, zootoponyms...) and, in a final section, the morphological processes and phenomena that characterize them (toponyms with composition, derivation, appearance of the plural, of the article, of certain suffixes...). In short, the Atlas is a novel work that aims to show and bring the Spanish toponymic reality closer to both the specialist and the general public.”
Taken from Arc Books.
See also:
http://www.departamentofilologiauah.com/profesorado_romanica_jgarcia.htm
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponimia
The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in reading this recommendation, you can check its availability at library catalogue.
Toponymic Atlas of Spain / Jairo Javier García Sánchez. — Madrid: Arco/Libros, 2007. — 407 p. ; 22cm — (Library Philology).
Bibliography: p. 353-362
DL M 152-2007 — ISBN 84-7635-660-9
PD 13.G37 2007
