Toponymy

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Geographical toponymia or onomastic is a discipline of the onomastic that consists of the registration, cataloguing and etymological study of the names of a place. The term "toponymia" is etymologically derived from the Greek τόπος (topos, 'place') and Đνομα (onoma, 'name').

In addition to the onomastics, other sciences use the concept of toponymia with specific meanings: in anatomy the term toponym is used to refer to the name of a region of the body, as it is different from the name of an organ; in biology the term toponym is synonymous with that of a biological name; in ethnology the term toponym refers to a name derived from a place or region.

History
In the Spanish language the RAE does not register this name until the end of the year. In Arabic, the first time the term "toponomist" appears dates from about the middle of the. It is known that the first toponyms were the storytellers and poets who, in the development of their activities, were dedicated to explaining the origin of certain places in order to decide their name. In some cases the names of certain places were already legends itself.

Characteristics
The names sometimes have their origin in their own names or names, but their origin is usually in some physical or material aspect of the place they designate. For example, Ocotlán means' where the pines abound 'but it has also been interpreted as' place of pine or ocote ', while Purroy, whose origin is in the Latin PODIUM RUBEUM' high reddish place, reddish village ', has precisely its motivation in which the designated people are located on an altozane whose lands and rocks have the aforementioned chromatic quality. The toponyms can be classified according to their way of referring to the place in three types:
Toponyms that describe or list some physical characteristic of the place, which is especially outstanding or relevant.
Toponyms that have their origin in or derived from person names.
Toponyms of unknown origin, usually from ancient common names which, over time, azars or linguistic evolution of the territories, have no longer been understood.

Toponymic studies generally require some degree of knowledge in dialectology, phonetics, history, lexicology and morphology, of one or more languages in the area to study where the toponym is located. Although in fact the study of toponyms is in essence a more etymological study, but with added difficulties, since phonetic changes do not operate with the same regularity in toponym as in the rest of the general lexicon.

Popular toponymy
One of the attractions of toponymy for fans is the popular belief of peoples that there is a sometimes mystical connection between the name of each place with what this name means. This belief is not surprising