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Guild of One-Name Studies

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Towards a World Bibliography of Personal Names

Towards… because this is just a limited effort to fill a gap and when the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS) Bibliography appears in 2008, its future will be re-considered.

With thanks to Ed Lawson for his generosity in allowing me to reproduce some of his collected references and abstracts, alongside my own collection of references (some needing copy-checking – beware). Unless indicated otherwise, any abstracts are those of the author or publisher.

This bibliography is constructed around continents and nations (rather than a linguistic approach) purely out of convenience (for me). As such its scope is limited. Hence it covers neither names in literature, nor names in religion.

Countries have been grouped in line with the United Nations’ Standard Country and Area Code classification.

[Philip Dance also wrote, UK and Ireland are in a separate bibliography, to be merged later.] The present arrangement of the bibliography achieves this aim.

Please select a nation by clicking on the relevant continent.

Africa

Eastern: Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madgascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Central: Cameroon, Congo, Gabon

Northern: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia

Southern: Botswana, Nambia, South Africa, Swaziland

Western: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo

America

Central: Caribbean, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico

South: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela

Northern: Canada, USA

Asia

Central: Krygyzstan, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Eastern: China, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, Korea(s)

Southern: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan

South-Eastern: Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

Western: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudia Arabia, Turkey

Europe

Eastern: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Slovakia ,Ukraine

Northern: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden

Southern: Albania, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain

Western: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland

Oceania

Australasia: Australia, New Zealand

Melanesia: Papua New Guinea

Micronesia: Guam

Polynesia: Tonga

Number of entries in database: 1,880 (Feb 21, 2008)

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