For the better understanding of the cultural and linguistic impact of colonialism on the shaping of the world as we know it today it is necessary to take account of the Europeanization of the map of the extra-European countries.To achieve this goal Comparative Colonial Toponomastics (CoCoTop) investigates the place names which were coined in the era of colonialism in the erstwhile possessions of European colonizer nations. This edited volume offers new insights into the toponomastic manifestations of Danish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish colonialism. The focus is on hitherto unexplored macrotoponyms and microtoponyms. Their structural and functional aspects are described. They are linked to the colonial history of the various nations involved. A general toponomastic framework beyond CoCoTop is presented additionally. Several of the papers mark the starting point of recently initiated new research projects.The volume is of special interest to onomasticians, scholars working in colonial and postcolonial linguistics, and historians of colonialism.

• Preface
• Contents
• Part I: General Toponomastics
• Theoretical considerations in the linguistic analysis of toponyms
• Part II: CoCoTop Studies
• Spanish and French colonial toponyms in the territory of present-day USA (16th to 18th century)
• Vorland-Nyika and Kumbamulde. The handling of indigenous place names in Oskar Baumann’s Usambara writings
• Martin Luther at a Pacific harbor. Toponymic classifiers and their role in German colonial place-making
• Places without names and names without places? On the blank maps of the Gani-Islands
• Between Arabic philology and colonial enterprise. Carlo Alfonso Nallino (1872– 1938), Eugenio Griffini (1878–1925) and Libyan toponymy
• Part III: Reports
• Danish colonial toponomastics
• How Danish were the Danish West Indies? Language use in written sources in a multilingual colonial society
• Part IV: Fresh Data
• Stadt der Kolonien – Street names in colonial contexts with particular consideration of the Hanseatic City of Bremen
• Index of Authors
• Index of Languages
• Index of Subjects and Toponyms