Nevşehir Yöresi Yerleşim Adlari Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme
An Evaluation on Place Names in the Province of Nevşehir

Summary/Abstract: Today an increasingly important branch of science is toponymy, the study of place names, which is one of the subbranches of science. The fact that there are certain trends in the administration of names which reflect the characteristics of the region makes this branch of science much more important. Studies on the place names have a great importance also for the research of intangible cultural heritage, because the place names indicate profound traces about cultures and civilizations existed in that geographical region throughout the history. For this reason, studies on place names are of a great importance in terms of cultural studies. While naming the settlements in the province of Nevsehir, the concepts related to person, profession, the human body, the family and kinship relations, institutional organizations, social structures, materials, structure and work, food, religious and national concepts of value, color, metal, time, race, size, community, state, nature and natural phenomena, plants and animals, geographic concepts, both positive and negative assumptions of society, terms of various disciplines, various words and concepts which are reflections of a local culture come into prominence. Names of locations are often given according to the Turkish traditions of naming. It is also known that these names have often a great importance in the study of folklore. For this reason, this work is composed of two main parts. In the first part, the names of the settlements in Nevsehir region are detected and classified, and in the second part, the suitability of these names to the tradition of giving a name are investigated and the data obtained are evaluated in terms of folklore.

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