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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New dataset contribution: Viabundus Browse over 10,000 places related to travel routes in Northern Europe from 1350-1650

Pleiades blog post about WHG! A guest post by Ruth Mostern and Karl Grossner in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series.

Reconciliation index now 13m records! We added 10 million records from GeoNames to the existing 3.6 million from Wikidata!

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