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This work discusses Slovenian geographical names: endonyms in Slovenia and in border areas inhabited by Slovenians in neighboring countries, and Slovenian exonyms used in Slovenian to describe geographical features outside the Slovenian settlement area. First, it gives a historical overview of dealing with geographical names in Slovenia and especially emphasizes their scholarly and cartographic significance. Then it presents macrotoponyms and microtoponyms, especially geographical names in Slovenian normative guides, names of countries, and foreign exonyms for Slovenian endonyms. All of this is connected with the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) and the Slovenian Government Commission for the Standardization of Geographical Names. The former body handles geographical names globally and the latter nationally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current usage of Slovene exonyms - Slovene geographical names in the foreign language areas, have been researched in detail recently, especially in scientific writings (atlases, encyclopedias). As opposed to current usage of Slovenian exonyms, the usage of exonyms in old texts is less known. The appropriate texts for such researches are old travelogues, which include a large number of different geographical names. One of such is the travelogue titled V petih letih okrog sveta (Around the world in 5 years). In the paper we try to find out which geographical names, exonyms or endonyms the author used in the text and from where he had taken them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the bibliographic identities of the persons who are creators or producers, or are the subject of a work. Today, in cataloguing, there are two ways to treat a person who uses more than one bibliographic identity, pseudonyms or other forms of the name: 1. as several separate persons, with an authorized form for every (individual) name with additional controlled access points for variant forms of the name, 2. as one person, with a single authorized access point (uniform heading) that would gather complete works of the person or a corporate body. The other names (personas) are treated as the variant form of the name. Heteronyms (the term heteronym is taken from linguistics) are illustrated by various examples such as the writer Fernando Pessoa, who established over seventy bibliographic identities with their own physical appearance, biography and different styles of writing, or Olja Savičević-Ivančević, perhaps the most famous person in Croatia using a heteronym. Unlike the pseudonym, which is just the writer's alias, the heteronym changes not only the name but also the nature and characteristics of the person. Exonyms and endonyms (the terms exonym and endonym are taken from ethnolinguistics) are illustrated by the examples of controlled access point for the entity person and entity place. The paper also presents cataloging practices of the national libraries in the world and in Croatia regarding the use of multiple names for the same creator and their attitudes to exonyms and endonyms. The quoted examples of bibliographic records from the world national libraries show title authority data made in national languages and in Latin, too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

V zadnjem stoletju smo bila priča izrazitim spremembam v poimenovanju tradicionalnih slovenskih pokrajin v angleških besedilih. Po drugi svetovni vojni so Slovenci že ustaljene angleške eksonime za te pokrajine v angleških besedilih postopoma zamenjali z endonimi. Tej smeri razvoja so sledila tudi objavljena dela in pedagoška praksa, ki so vedno bolj vztrajali pri tem, da se v angleških besedilih uporabljajo izključno endonimi. Po razpadu Jugoslavije in osamosvojitvi Slovenije pa so se ustaljeni eksonimi začeli ponovno uporabljati. Članek orisuje to spreminjajočo se prakso na podlagi izbranih angleških besedil iz zadnjih treh stoletij. Poleg tega se osredotoča tudi na številne probleme, povezane z rabo endonimov, ter na nenehna vprašanja glede rabe endonimov. Ker je angleščina svetovni jezik, izbire tistih, ki pišejo v angleščini, neposredno vplivajo na to, kako sta Slovenija in slovenska narodna identiteta predstavljeni na svetovni ravni. Zaključki se nanašajo neposredno na prakso prevajanja slovenskih besedil v angleščino, posredno pa tudi na slovensko književnost in kulturo, predstavljeno v angleških prevodih.

This article discusses the delicate relationships when demarcating the concepts of endonym and exonym. In addition to problems connected with the study of transnational names (i.e., names of geographical features extending across the territory of several countries), there are also problems in ethnically mixed areas. These are examined in greater detail in the case of place names in Slovenia and neighboring countries. On the one hand, this raises the question of the nature of endonyms on the territory of Slovenia in the languages of officially recognized minorities and their respective linguistic communities, and their relationship to exonyms in the languages of neighboring countries. On the other hand, it also raises the issue of Slovenian exonyms for place names in neighboring countries and their relationship to the nature of Slovenian endonyms on their territories. At a certain point, these dimensions intertwine, and it is there that the demarcation between the concepts of endonym and exonym is most difficult and problematic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geografska literatura je pomembno prispevala k razvijanju nacionalne zavesti Slovencev v 19. stoletju in k utrjevanju slovenske identitete po osamosvojitvi Slovenije leta 1991. Tipičen primer takšne geografske publikacije je Atlant, prvi atlas sveta v slovenskem jeziku, ki je izhajal med letoma 1869 in 1877 in sledil ideji Zedinjene Slovenije, s katero so v tem prelomnem času Slovenci, večinoma vključeni v Avstro-Ogrsko, kot narod prvič odločneje stopili na politično prizorišče Evrope. [tevilna zemljepisna imena so bila prvič prevedena ali podomačena v slovenski jezik. V značilnostih prirejanja tujih zemljepisnih imen se kažejo geografske, jezikovne in politične razmere, v kakršnih so živeli Slovenci, pa tudi takratna razmerja med slovenščino, nemščino in slovanskimi jeziki. Tudi ponovna izdaja Atlanta leta 2005 je povezana s prelomnim časom, saj je izšla po osamosvojitvi Slovenije in njeni vključitvi v Evropsko zvezo, ko mlada država išče svojo identiteto med vsemi državami sveta. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]