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Searching for places in Central Europe - The Historic Gazetteer GOV
When working with location information, it is often not enough to provide only the name of a place. One would like to uniquely identify the place. However, this identification is not as simple as it might seem at a first glance. Usually, at the lowest level you have settlements such as villages, groups of houses, hamlets etc. These settlements are embedded in an administrative structure. At least in a large part of the world there are parallel political, ecclesiastical, and judicial administrative structures. Changing administrative structures make it difficult to find correct references.In this session we are going to take a look at some of these problems. We will see how CompGen's Historic Gazetteer (Geschichtliches Ortsverzeichnis - GOV) helps identifying places. After this short introduction we will try together to identify your place names in Central Europe.
