The onomastic view from Velebit’s Petar Zoranić Peak

Based on researching the reference literature, archival materials, and available sources, this paper describes reflection of personal name author first Croatian novel Croatia’s toponymy chrematonymy. Special attention is given to historical circumstances, motivation, naming principles, impacts formation Velebit’s present-day oronymy, whose examples frequently point issue standardisation geographical names, lack a legislative solution that would precisely stipulate landform procedure, necessity establish national-level expert body decide official figures toponyms are recorded maps. The section hodonymy chrematonymy chiefly examines wider Zadar region, where writer’s clearly most widespread.