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Geoinformational Database of Lithuanian Toponyms

GDLT

http://lvvgdb.lki.lt/

GDLT is developed mainly for science subjects and applications needs. The database provides information about the linguistic units - place names - and the geographical units - geographic objects. The coordinates of each recorded linguistic-geographical unit have a certain attachment - the attributes of the place: colloquial place name variants, the stressing, the scientific origin, formation interpretation, the time of recording from the living language, the time of the first mention in historical resources, the sound of the utterance, population density of the residential areas, geographic settings, objects, photographs, and other administrative dependence. In addition, the database includes not only the existing settlements, river, lake names, but also the extinct objects of those classes, also the land names, which were written by the local population during the interwar period, in 1935-1940, and post-war.