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Belgium-Roots http://belgium.rootsweb.ancestry.com/bel/_places/index.html
Placename index for Belgium.
Gazetteer of Slovakia http://www.iarelative.com/gazateer.htm
Index of geographic features, populated places, and administrative place names.
IreAtlas Townland Search http://www.seanruad.com/
Database of townlands in Ireland providing associated parish and poor law union.
Irish Placename Studies http://www.maqqi.supanet.com/geography/placename.htm
Introduction to a discussion group for the study of place names in Ireland.
Place Name Board of Estonia http://www.eki.ee/knn/index2.htm
Government body providing news, lists of place names, and toponymic guidelines.
Scottish Place-Name Society http://www.spns.org.uk/
Supports toponymic studies in Scotland and the work of the Scottish Place-Name Database at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Edinburgh. Projects, notes and queries, newsletter.
Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland http://www.snsbi.org.uk/
Originally an invitation-only society for scholars but now with a wider membership. Projects, journal and events.
Swedish Gazetteer http://www.sna.se/gazetteer.html
Search a list of almost 60,000 locations in Sweden. Results are shown with municipality and county, as well as the location on a topographic map of Sweden. (From the National Atlas of Sweden.)
The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/
Locates not only Jewish settlements in Central and Eastern Europe, but other placenames also. Covers linguistic and historic variants for names.
Toponymic Guidelines for Cartography - Norway http://www.statkart.no/IPS/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=439
Introduction to a download of the guidelines.
Toponymic Lexicon of French Flanders http://home.scarlet.be/raymond.herbigniaux/flandreen.htm
Historical background and alphabetical lists matching French and Dutch/Flemish names.
Ulster Place-name Society http://www.ulsterplacenames.org/
Provides details of membership, the society journal and event information.

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