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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.

• PCGN: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

  http://www.pcgn.org.uk/UK%20Toponymic%20Guidelines.pdf
  Toponymic guidelines for map and other editors.

• 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.

• The JewishGen Communities

  http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/
  Locates not only Jewish settlements in Central and Eastern Europe, but other placenames also. Covers linguistic and historic variants for names.

• 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.

• Wikipedia: Alternative Names of European Places

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alternative_names_of_European_places
  Source of much information on place names in Europe in different languages.

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