Toponym: A place name. This simple definition is very complex. Place names can come from a variety of different places and help show how that area was colonized, or who was there in the beginning.
For example the border of Mexico and The United States cities have many Mexican names. Some of the city names in the United States are: San Antonio, Texas; Santa Fe, New Mexico; San Francisco, California; Tuscon, Arizona; and many more. These areas near this border have names that relate to the Catholic religion, or other Mexican culture pieces. This shows us that when this area was named, it was under governance, or ownership of the same group that governed, or owned, present day Mexico. Also, place names can relate to religion. For example, San Francisco is named for Saint Francis of Assis. Saint Francis of Assis was an Italian Catholic priest. The Catholic religion is big in Mexico because of the Catholic Spaniards that colonized the area.
http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/morphingmap.html
On this map it shows that as time went on, the USA gained more land. The final pieces of land they gained were more south. Before the USA gained this land, it belonged to Mexico, or the Spaniards that colonized in that area. Although the USA gained this land from them, the names of the cities did not change and that is why today we see these names in the USA.
There are other examples of this in many areas of the USA, and the rest of the world.
Toponym. The Free Dictionary by Farlex, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012.
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Francis of Assisi. Wikipedia, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
While reading your post I started to realize that everything your saying makes a lot of sense even though I didn't know what toponym even meant. What's weird is I've been to a lot of those cities you listed off for example Tuscon, and San Francisco. While reading your blog I've truly learned a lot about place names. Something that really caught my attention was the fact that a lot of Mexico's culture is based off of the Catholic Religion. I had almost forgotten about that, until you mentioned it again. I remember learning this in my world history class and you brought back a lot of memories and taught me things I didn't know as well. I'm looking forward to reading more of your blogs and I'm looking forward to learning more about place names.
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