Examples include Black Forest; Baltimore, Maryland; and Quartier Latin, Paris. Geographic name parts can be encoded using <geogName> sub-elements. For greater specificity, however, use <district>, <settlement>, <region>, <country>, and <bloc> sub-elements. The name of the list from which a controlled value is taken, such as the Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), may be recorded using the @auth attribute.
The model of this element is based on the geogname element of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
<elementSpec ident="geogName" module="MEI.namesdates">
<gloss xml:lang="en">geographic name</gloss>
<desc xml:lang="en">The proper noun designation for a place, natural feature, or political
jurisdiction.</desc>
<classes>
<memberOf key="att.common"/>
<memberOf key="att.bibl"/>
<memberOf key="att.edit"/>
<memberOf key="att.facsimile"/>
<memberOf key="att.lang"/>
<memberOf key="att.name"/>
<memberOf key="model.nameLike.geogName"/>
</classes>
<content>
<rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:choice>
<rng:text/>
<rng:ref name="model.textPhraseLike"/>
<rng:ref name="model.editLike"/>
<rng:ref name="model.transcriptionLike"/>
</rng:choice>
</rng:zeroOrMore>
</content>
<remarks xml:lang="en">
<p>Examples include Black Forest; Baltimore, Maryland; and Quartier Latin, Paris. Geographic
name parts can be encoded using <gi scheme="MEI">geogName</gi> sub-elements. For greater
specificity, however, use <gi scheme="MEI">district</gi>, <gi scheme="MEI">settlement</gi>,
<gi scheme="MEI">region</gi>, <gi scheme="MEI">country</gi>, and <gi scheme="MEI">bloc</gi>
sub-elements. The name of the list from which a controlled value is taken, such as
the
Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), may be recorded using the <att>auth</att>
attribute.</p>
<p>The model of this element is based on the <ref target="https://www.loc.gov/ead/EAD3taglib/EAD3-TL-eng.html#elem-geogname">geogname</ref> element of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).</p>
</remarks>
</elementSpec>