Each community perceives and named the environment it lives in with its cultural background. As a result, every society transforms physical geography into human geography by changing the environment they live in. They do this transformation by naming them as they do with concrete activities. The geography discipline mostly focused on the names of villages and urban settlements. In the village names researches, generally, the name of the administrative center of the village was examined, but other rural settlements were not examined. This research is one of the pioneer studies examining all rural settlements in village administrative areas. This research aims to explain what factors are effective in naming the sub-villages in the village administrative area of Kırşehir province. Literature was evaluated that could help determine the origin of sub-village names in village administrative areas. Besides, trips and observations were made and information was also obtained from mukhtar and residents. It has been revealed that 71% of the 85 sub-village names in Kırşehir province are related to human geography and 18% are related to physical geography features.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Human Geography |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | April 29, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 |