An analysis on names of places, some streets and avunues in Central district of Kastamonu and its southern districts

Toponomy is one of the two important branches of onomastics. Toponomy studies names of places where communities live, pass by or stay for a short time in terms of meaning and structure and how communities name them after by using various features. In the thesis, names of places, some streets and avenues in central district of Kastamonu and its Southern Districts have been evaluated both in lexical/semantical and structural way. The aim of the study is to present features of reasons for naming after places in southern districts of Kastamonu and in this way to show local cultural reflections. The thesis is formed of five sections. Name of places have been classified as to their species, evaluated semantically and structurally in the end. It has been determined that the old cultural elements have not been forgotten, it is reflected especially on the names of the villages and delicacy of Turkish language has been used by naming after places.