Author Archive: Marta Szczepańska

T. 68.4, ss. 59–84

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Asymilacja nazewnicza i oswajanie przestrzeni tzw. Ziem Odzyskanych w realiach powojennych na przykładzie rynków staromiejskich

Naming assimilation and domestication of urban space of the so-called Recovered Territories in the postwar realities on the example of old town market squares

Marta SZCZEPAŃSKA
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych
e-mail: mw.szczepanska@uw.edu.pl
ORCID: 0000-0002-5769-407X

Abstract: This article concerns postwar changes of hodonyms and agoronyms in the area of old town markets of selected cities, in the context of adaptation processes of the allochthonous population. The analysis includes four voivodship cities in the area of the northern and western territories, known as the Recovered Territories (after the administrative division of Poland on June 28, 1946): Gdańsk, Olsztyn, Szczecin and Wrocław. The results of the comparative research are presented in descriptive, cartographic and tabular form. Based on them, it was concluded that the naming changes of the old town market squares were the result of naming assimilation (identified as a top-down process) and domestication of space (identified as a bottom-up process). Both processes contributed to an entirely new chapter in the history of cities in these lands, creating a semantic storyline construct that is unique in Poland and the world.

Key words: Western and Northern Territories, urban space, urbanonym, hodonym, agoronym

Zalecany sposób cytowania / Cite as: Szczepańska M., 2023, Asymilacja nazewnicza i oswajanie przestrzeni tzw. Ziem Odzyskanych w realiach powojennych na przykładzie rynków staromiejskich, Prace i Studia Geograficzne, 68.4, Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa, 59–84, DOI: 10.48128/pisg/2023-68.4-04

Wpłynęło: 11.08.2023
Zaakceptowano: 4.12.2023

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T. 68.4, ss. 41–57

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Kobiety (nie)widoczne w nazwach ulic – dysproporcje liczbowe między patronkami a patronami ulic w polskich miastach na prawach powiatu

Women (in)visible in street names – disproportions in numbers between female and male patrons of streets in Polish cities and towns with county rights

Helena NITKIEWICZ
Uniwersytet Warszawski
e-mail: hz.nitkiewicz@student.uw.edu.pl
ORCID: 0000-0002-7898-5562

Abstract: The study aims to determine the degree of disproportion in numbers between male and female patrons of the streets of Polish large cities. It provides answers to the question of how many streets in cities with county rights were named after male and female historical figures. The research sample includes all 66 cities and towns with county rights. Moreover, on the basis of the collected data, a pantheon of female patrons was prepared. Data from the TERYT register was manually marked in a spreadsheet in order to count patrons disaggregated by gender. The study concluded that there is a high degree of numerical disproportion between female and male street patrons in Polish cities. Among historical figures commemorated in street names, women constitute between 3.52% and 19.86%. The most common patrons are Maria Konopnicka, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Eliza Orzeszkowa.

Key words: critical toponymy, street patrons, cities with county rights, feminonyms, masculinonyms

Zalecany sposób cytowania / Cite as: Nitkiewicz H., 2023, Kobiety (nie)widoczne w nazwach ulic – dysproporcje liczbowe między patronkami a patronami ulic w polskich miastach na prawach powiatu, Prace i Studia Geograficzne, 68.4, Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa, 41–57, DOI: 10.48128/pisg/2023-68.4-03

Wpłynęło: 11.08.2023
Zaakceptowano: 4.12.2023

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T. 68.4, ss. 27–39

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Charków – przeciwdziałanie dominującej komunistycznej toponimii miasta

Kharkiv – counteracting the city’s dominant communist toponymy

Oleksandr RADCHENKO
Uniwersytet Gdański
Wydział Nauk Społecznych
Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki Przestrzennej
e-mail: oleksander.radchenko@ug.edu.pl
ORCID: 0000-0002-0437-6131
Tomasz MICHALSKI
Uniwersytet Gdański
Wydział Nauk Społecznych
Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki Przestrzennej
e-mail: tomasz.michalski@ug.edu.pl
ORCID: 0000-0002-7916-9620

Abstract: Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine after Kiev in terms of importance and population. From 1919 to 1935, Kharkiv was the official capital of Soviet Ukraine, and therefore Lenin’s “Communist Propaganda Plan” was most often applied in it. Most streets, administrative districts, industrial plants, community centres, schools, etc. were named after communist activists or symbols of communism. In this context, the article aims to analyse a long-term process of removing the dominant communist toponymy of the city during de-communization in Kharkiv. After the declaration of independence, the Ukrainian authorities banned the Communist Party and the propagation of communist ideology, but despite this, for around thirty years Kharkiv’s toponymy continued to be dominated by names associated with the Soviet propaganda. It was only with the onset of the war in the Donbass in 2014 that real renaming of toponymic objects with communist origins began in Kharkiv. The first major change took place in May 2016, when seven city districts, five metro stations, 52 streets and a park were renamed. The process of change accelerated after the onset of a full-scale war in 2022.

Key words: Kharkiv, toponyms, communist propaganda, decommunization

Zalecany sposób cytowania / Cite as: Radchenko O., Michalski T., 2023, Charków – przeciwdziałanie dominującej komunistycznej toponimii miasta, Prace i Studia Geograficzne, 68.4, Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa, 27–39, DOI: 10.48128/pisg/2023-68.4-02

Wpłynęło: 28.02.2023
Zaakceptowano: 8.12.2023

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T. 68.4, ss. 13–25

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Co skrywają ulice w centrum Reykjavíku? O gniazdach toponimicznych w stolicy Islandii

What’s hidden in the street names in the centre of Reykjavík? The toponymic nests in the capital city of Iceland

Agata MICHNOWSKA
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Katedra Skandynawistyki
e-mail: agata.michnowska@amu.edu.pl
ORCID: 0000-0001-8601-8188

Abstract: The aim of this article is to collect and describe certain toponymic nests in the city of Reykjavík. Icelandic hodonyms are not a topic that is eagerly taken up by onomasticians, hence the need to organize knowledge about them. The author explains etymologies of the street names belonging to three toponymic nests, i.e. names inspired by the names of Norse gods, names inspired by the names of the heroes from the Old Norse sagas, and finally names connected to the sea motive. The semantic analysis has shown that there is no coincidence in the naming pattern in the centre of Reykjavík.

Key words: urbanonymy, hodonyms, street names, Reykjavík, Iceland

Zalecany sposób cytowania / Cite as: Michnowska A., 2023, Co skrywają ulice w centrum Reykjavíku? O gniazdach toponimicznych w stolicy Islandii, Prace i Studia Geograficzne, 68.4, Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa, 13–25, DOI: 10.48128/pisg/2023-68.4-01

Wpłynęło: 14.06.2023
Zaakceptowano: 4.12.2023

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