Lebanese Place-Names (Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon) a Typology of Regional Variation and Continuity

by Elie Wardini

The present volume covers some 1724 Lebanese place-names in the districts of Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon. The aim has been to: a) establish a database of place-names based on fieldwork; b) present the etymologies of these names based on the latest findings in Semitic lexicography, onomastics and dialectology; and c) plot the results across the Lebanese territory. The present volume presents a glimpse of Lebanon's yesterday. An analysis of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042912480
• ISBN13: 9789042912489
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 719 Pages