World Historical Gazetteer

linking knowledge about the past via place

The World Historical Gazetteer is a platform for linking records about historical places, allowing people to make spatial connections across time and language. You can learn more about gazetteers, which are directories of named places, here .

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25,227 New African Settlements! The WHG has added settlements from Senegal, Mauritania, and Guinea, data compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

New dataset contribution! Browse places from Father Antonio Monserrate's Travels in Mughal India from 1579-1582

WHG Director Featured on Podcast World History Center Director Dr. Ruth Mostern was featured on an episode of "Educating to Be Human" Podcast where she discussed the World Historical Gazetteer.