Place-Naming of Historical Tourism Sites in Bandung: A Study of Toponymy
Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
Many researchers do their research on Toponymy study. This article also tries to describe the Toponymy study relating to place-naming of historical tourism sites in Bandung. This study describes the types of the place-naming found in the data and it is being analogized to the eleven Nash’s classifications (2015). From the twelve data collected, it is found that the place- naming of historical tourism sites in Bandung can be classified into six classifications: two data as single noun, two data as generic noun + adjective, one data as generic noun + proper noun + verb, three data as generic noun + generic noun, three data as generic noun + proper noun, and one data as proper noun + proper noun.
KEYWORDS
Place-naming, historical tourism sites, toponymy