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The Belgian Historical Gazetteer: an index of Belgian historical place names to link archival collections and explore landscapes histories

Year: 2024

Type: other

Abstract: Gazetteers can help historians with mapping toponyms that appear in the sources they analyse by providing them with lists of historical place names and extra information which can be used to disambiguate the latter, if it happens that several different places share a same name. This is the aim of initiatives such as the World Historical Gazetteer or Pleiades. However, despite their merits, the international scope of these tools impedes the use for regional and local historical research. Hist...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/12p8q

Author: Leahermenault

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6936628100

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