Toponymische Klassifikatoren und der koloniale Blick: Merkmale einer kolonialen Kategorisierung von Landschaft

For European colonialism, hierarchically classifying people and cultures was a means of self-legitimation. Between the natural and cultural space, however, the landscape, too, was subject to Eurocentric attributions. The author examines the toponymic classificators to describe the specific characteristics of colonial spatial perception and the significance of topographical classes for colonial expansion.