WHG::Datasets

These datasets flagged as public in WHG include a growing set of historical contributions, as well as several in a non-historical "core." They can be browsed on their linked pages, explored in context of the entire repository on the Search page, and accessed programmatically with our Index and Database APIs.

All such public data are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, requirements of which appear alongside download links on all Dataset and Collection pages H = Historical; C = Core (non-historical)

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title	rows	description	modified	contributor	type
African Ports, 1887	305	305 settlements and ports on the West African coast	2023-01-24	WHG Admin	H
An Historical Atlas of Central Asia	759	This dataset comprises 759 place records, digitized in 2018 from 15 of the 48 maps in Yuri Bregel's scholarly atlas. The maps' extensive sources, detailed in the Preface and Notes, include "...all rel...moreiable general surveys of Central Asian history, and scholarly works on specific historical topics that contain significant historico-geographical information, with or without maps." The data comprises not only settlements, but historical cultural and political regions, spatial extents for which are indeterminate and indicated by dashed boundaries around their labels on the map plates. less	2022-08-29	WHG Admin	H
Atlas of Mutual Heritage	1322	The Atlas of Mutual Heritage is a growing database containing information about, and images of, the charter areas of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) and WIC (Dutch West India Company).	2024-06-25	Rombert Stapel	H
Buddhist monasteries of the Western Ghats	55	Locations of early Buddhist rock-cut monasteries in the Western Ghats and Konkan coast regions of India. Only the caves cut between second century BCE and the early fifth century CE are included.	2023-11-06		H
Burkina Faso Settlements	10939	Burkina Faso Settlements as compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Burkina Faso publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. The settlemen...morets dataset contains the location of cities, towns and villages in Burkina Faso. Data was transferred to LP-TSV format and cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2023-12-08	Justin Piel	H
Central African Republic Settlements	7419	Central African Republic Settlements as compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. The dataset sho...morews the villages and towns of Central African Republic. Data was transferred to LP-TSV format and cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2023-12-08	Justin Piel	H
Chad Settlements	16963	Chad Settlements as compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. The dataset shows village locations...more in Chad. Data was transferred to LP-TSV format and cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-01-04	Justin Piel	H
Chinese Counties, 1911	1985	The China Historical GIS (CHGIS) project has produced a comprehensive series of datasets related to the administrative geography of Chinese History. This dataset contains 1,985 counties for the year 1...more911. CHGIS was an international collaborative effort made up of research and technical teams, a management committee, and an advisory committee. The members who participated are recorded here: https://chgis.fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/pages/members/ less	2023-05-13	WHG Admin	H
Chinese Prefectures, 1911	381	The China Historical GIS (CHGIS) project has produced a comprehensive series of datasets related to the administrative geography of Chinese History. This dataset contains 1,985 counties for the year 1...more911. CHGIS was an international collaborative effort made up of research and technical teams, a management committee, and an advisory committee. The members who participated are recorded here: https://chgis.fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/pages/members/ less	2023-04-29	WHG Admin	H
Chinese Provinces, 1911	27	The China Historical GIS (CHGIS) project has produced a comprehensive series of datasets related to the administrative geography of Chinese History. This dataset contains 1,985 counties for the year 1...more911. CHGIS was an international collaborative effort made up of research and technical teams, a management committee, and an advisory committee. The members who participated are recorded here: https://chgis.fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/pages/members/ less	2023-04-14	WHG Admin	H
Chinese Towns, 1911	40017	The China Historical GIS (CHGIS) project has produced a comprehensive series of datasets related to the administrative geography of Chinese History. This dataset contains 1,985 counties for the year 1...more911. CHGIS was an international collaborative effort made up of research and technical teams, a management committee, and an advisory committee. The members who participated are recorded here: https://chgis.fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/pages/members/ less	2023-05-11	WHG Admin	H
Congo Settlements	5774	Congo Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and ...morecleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-04-26	Justin Piel	H
Côte d'Ivoire Settlements	8367	Côte d'Ivoire Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV for...moremat and cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-03-25	Justin Piel	H
Crete Violence	61	This dataset records all the sites with archaeological or epigraphic evidence for violence on Crete or violence enacted by Cretans in the Archaic and Classical periods (c. 700-400 BCE). It derives fro...morem Jesse Obert's PhD dissertation, in which he quantifies and visualizes all the evidence and includes a full bibliography. See: Obert, Jesse. 2023. “Violence and Polis Formation on Crete in the Age of Hoplite Warfare, 700-400 BCE.” Doctoral Thesis, Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley. less	2023-12-17	Jesse Obert	H
Curaçao Historical Administrative Areas	29	Spatiotemporal GIS layer of administrative areas (quarters; divisions; districts; urban neighbourhoods) in the island of Curaçao under Dutch, post-WIC control (1792-1954).	2021-03-09	Rombert Stapel	H
David Christian's Inner Asia	1	Digitized from Christian, David. “Inner Eurasia as a Unit of World History.” Journal of World History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994, pp. 173–211.	2023-11-06	WHG Admin	H
DK Atlas of World History	10643	Data culled from the index and maps of DK Atlas of World History. Jeremy Black, Ed.. DK Publishing (2005)	2019-01-10	WHG Admin	H
Eritrea Settlements	4416	Eritrea Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format an...mored cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-04-26	Justin Piel	H
Eugène Andriveau-Goujon 1880 Africa Map	1322	The following is a list of settlements in Eugène Andriveau-Goujon's 1880 map “Carte générale de l’Afrique, d’après les dernières découvertes.” The map was georeferenced and point data was added for se...morettlements through GIS. Settlement data reflects only the mainland African continent, as the spatial transformations necessary for accuracy in the mainland led to some distortion of Madagascar, outlying areas, islands, etc. less	2024-03-20	Justin Piel	H
Eurasia UNESCO World Heritage Sites	23	These sites span 6 countries of Northern and Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, and China. These sites are landmarks or areas that have been designated...more by UNESCO to have "cultural and natural heritage" which is considered "of outstanding value to humanity." Sites vary from natural systems such as lakes and plateaus to manmade structures such as ancient towns and mausoleums. less	2023-11-06	Louise Matthews	H
Euratlas Cities	3584	3584 cities with temporally scoped names from the Euratlas Periodis Historical Atlas and Gazatteer. Polities will be added as a separate dataset.	2020-04-10	WHG Admin	H
Exploring Slave Trade in Asia	474	The Exploring Slave Trade in Asia Dataset presents 474 records with some geographic coordinates. Each entry provides the title, name variants, start year, type, aat code, and a description field which...more contains extra information including citations. less	2024-02-20	Matias Badino	H
Father Monserrate's Travels in Mughal India	138	Description of the movements of Father Antonio Monserrate during his visit to the court of Akbar. Father Monserrate depaarted from Goa in 1579 and returned in 1582. He travelled through the territorie...mores of the Mughal empire, stayed at the court of Akbar, and accompanied Akbar in his military campaign against his half-brother in Afghanistan. Data: places through which Monserrate traveled. Data consists of 140 places mentioned by Monserrate. These places represent towns, cities, rivers, mountains, mountain ranges, sacred places, and forts. Most of the places were encountered by Monserrate. In some cases, he refers to places that he did not see. Method: place names were taken from the following sources: The Commentary of Father Monserrate, S.J. on his journey to the Court of Akbar (Oxford University Press, 1922) less	2024-10-22	Sundara Vadlamudi	H
Gabon Settlements	3719	Gabon Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and ...morecleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-04-26	Justin Piel	H
Gazetteer of Stone Quarries in the Roman World	781	The Stone Quarries Database was compiled by Ben Russell as part of his research project on Sculpted Stone and the Roman Economy. The database includes all those quarries at which activity in the Roman...more period is proven or suspected. Creators of the database noted that dating these quarries to specific periods within the Roman era is usually very difficult and so has been largely avoided. The uploaded dataset uses the more general period of Imperial Rome (27BC - 476 AD) unless otherwise specially noted. Some sites may have been used prior to this period. The full dataset is available from the the Oxford Roman Economy Project. less	2023-10-23	Ali Straub	H
Ghana Settlements	10978	Ghana Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and ...morecleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-02-23	Justin Piel	H
Guinea Settlements	2223	Guinea Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and...more cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-10-18	Justin Piel	H
Heritage Gazetteer of Libya	1349	The aim of the Heritage Gazetteer of Libya is to record, and to provide with Unique Identifiers, locations and monuments within modern Libya which are of significance to the history of the area up to ...more1950. It is based on the work of members of the Society for Libyan Studies. less	2024-01-12	Nathan Michalewicz	H
HGIS de las Indias (lugares)	13258	The lugares (settlements) in the Historical-Geographic Information System (HGIS) of the Indies (1701-1808), a project of the University of Graz, funded with the support of the Fund for Scientific Inve...morestigations of the Republic of Austria (FWF) between 2015 and 2017. The general purpose of HGIS de las Indias is to create a visualization of the historical geography for the Bourbon Spanish America through time, to create a solid systematics of the administrative-territorial structure as an interface for associated projects, as well as to promote geographic methods and digital tools in Hispano-Americanist historiography. less	2019-04-16	WHG Admin	H
HGIS de las Indias territorios	892	The administrative territorios in the Historical-Geographic Information System (HGIS) of the Indies (1701-1808), a project of the University of Graz, funded with the support of the Fund for Scientific...more Investigations of the Republic of Austria (FWF) between 2015 and 2017. The general purpose of HGIS de las Indias is to create a visualization of the historical geography for the Bourbon Spanish America through time, to create a solid systematics of the administrative-territorial structure as an interface for associated projects, as well as to promote geographic methods and digital tools in Hispano-Americanist historiography. less	2019-04-12	WHG Admin	H
Historical Conflict Event Dataset	6951	The Historical Conflict Event Dataset presents 6,951 battlefields with geographic coordinates and dates, ranging from 1468 BCE to 2003 CE. Each entry provides the name, time, location and a short desc...moreription for sites of historical battles. The dataset was converted from an XML file into the LPF format. less	2024-01-18	WHG Admin	H
IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names	4727	General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans(GEBCO) provides publicly available bathymetry data sets for the world’s oceans. The GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) maintains and makes av...moreailable a digital gazetteer of the names, generic feature type and geographic position of features on the seafloor. GEBCO operates under the joint auspices of the International Hydrographic Organization(IHO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) (of UNESCO). less	2022-12-03	Ali Straub	H
Indigenous Place Names in Florida	100	Place names from "A provisional gazetteer of Florida place-names of Indian derivation, either obsolescent or retained, together with others of recent application" edited by Mark F. Boyd, Tallahassee, ...more1956. Many of the place names stem from Creek and Hitchiti languages. less	2023-01-25	Ali Straub	H
Indigenous Place Names of the Yukon	99	Selected indigenous place names from Gazetteer of Yukon created by the Yukon Geographical Place Names Program. The dataset includes names from Yukon First Nations people including: Kaska, Tlingit, Tag...moreish, Southern Tutchone, Northern Tutchone, Upper Tanana, Gwich'in, and Hän. less	2022-10-10	Ali Straub	H
Indigenous Place Names of Western PA	13	A collection of Indigenous place names of Western PA, originating from various local tribes. These Indigenous names are pulled from a collection of place names from George P. Donehoo's book A History ...moreof the Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania. Only village names have been pulled, not rivers or lakes. Citation: Donehoo, George P. A History of the Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania . Wennawoods Publishing. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. 1998. less	2023-10-06	Audrey Wolyniec	H
KIT gazetteer Dutch Antilles	1227	Gazetteer developed by the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute) in the Netherlands, in order to allow users to produce geographical queries on the KITs Dutch Colonial Maps Co...morellection. less	2021-10-12	Rombert Stapel	H
KIT gazetteer Surinam	2146	Gazetteer developed by the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute) in the Netherlands, in order to allow users to produce geographical queries on the KITs Dutch Colonial Maps Co...morellection. This collection is currently hosted by the Leiden University Library (https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/collection/kitmaps). less	2021-08-03	Rombert Stapel	H
List of Russian towns, late 14c	282	So called “List of Russian Towns, Distant and Hither" survived in 26 copies, and the oldest copy was preserved in the Commission Scroll of the Novgorod First Chronicle	2021-11-25		H
Madagascar Settlements	22003	Madagascar Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format...more and cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-04-26	Justin Piel	H
Mali Settlements	18029	Mali Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and c...moreleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-02-09	Justin Piel	H
Mauritania Settlements	8636	Mauritania Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format...more and cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-10-20	Justin Piel	H
Niger Settlements	32829	Niger Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and ...morecleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-01-27	Justin Piel	H
Old World Trade	4117	Place records drawn from "...geo/chrono-referenced data on land, river and maritime trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 4,000 BCE - circa 1820 CE." Trade routes to be added in another...more dataset. less	2023-11-04	WHG Admin	H
Place Names from "The Road of Furs" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads"	66	Place Names from Chapter 6, "The Road of Furs" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads." This chapter chronicles the rise of the fur trade on the Silk Roads and how it contributed to continued expansion ...morein every direction. There is also special attention to the connection between the spread of Islam and the spread of trade routes, especially for furs. The place names in this chapter include many rivers and seas and the settlements that began popping up alongside them. Additionally, peoples as diverse as the Ghuzz, Pecheneges, and Khazars are discussed in this chapter. less	2024-04-12	Louise Matthews	H
Place Names from "The Road to a Christian East" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads"	103	Gazetteer of Place Names from Chapter 3, "The Road to a Christian East" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads." Christianity had solidified itself in Rome, but its roots in Asia still held deep. At thi...mores point, the Roman Empire was shrinking, and this chapter's place names reflect the other forces that began encroaching, such as the Xiongnu and Alans. This chapter also highlights some of the earliest and largest Christian communities in Asia like Merv and Kashgar. Frankopan's message is to highlight the reach of Christianity in Asia occurring centuries before missionaries reached England or France. less	2024-04-08	Louise Matthews	H
Place Names from "The Road to Concord" from Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads"	93	Gazetteer of Place Names from chapter 5, "The Road to Concord" from Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads." The place names in this chapter reflect the growing development of Islam in the Middle East and ...moreits expansion into Central Asia. Places of both success and failure are examined, with special attention to the city of Baghdad as a high point for the Islamic world. The growing expansion and connection of the empire is demonstrated in this chapter through places as far apart as Scandinavia and the Iberian peninsula. less	2024-04-12	Louise Matthews	H
Place Names from "The Road to Heaven" from Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads"	81	Place Names from Chapter 8, "The Road to Heaven" from Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads." The places in this dataset revolve around the Mediterranean as it describes the Crusades and Italy's attempts ...moreat expanding to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. The chapter discusses pivotal cities of the Byzantine Empire such as Thessaloniki, as well as the continued growth of trade with Asia in countries such as China and India. less	2024-05-09	Louise Matthews	H
Place Names from "The Road to Hell" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads"	76	Place Names from Chapter Nine, "The Road to Hell" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads." This chapter details the Mongols under the leadership of Genghis Khan and their introduction to Egypt and the M...moreiddle East. The place names in this chapter reflect the Mongols' presence in China and Central Asia but also extend as far as Russia, the Korean peninsula, and Cairo. The chapter closes the narrative on the Crusades by detailing Mongol victories in what was once the Christain Holy Land, as European leaders set their sights elsewhere. less	2024-05-09	Louise Matthews	H
Place Names from "The Road to Revolution" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads"	49	Gazetteer of Place Names from Chapter 4, "The Road to Revolution" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads." This chapter chronicles the rise of Islam and how it affected the surrounding regions. Frankopa...moren describes the efforts of the Persian Empire and various campaigns in areas such as Ctesiphon and Arabia before describing the rise of Muhammad and Islam in Medina. less	2024-04-08	Louise Matthews	H
Place Names from "The Slave Road" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads"	119	Place Names from Chapter 7, "The Slave Road" in Peter Frankopan's "The Silk Roads." This chapter's place names extend farther in Europe than in previous parts of the book. This came with the introduct...moreion of the Viking Rus and an increased interest in the slave trade and how fast it could generate profit. This chapter details the earliest locations of slave markets in both Europe and Central Asia, and how these markets laid the foundation and built up economies in those areas. Through this, the sheer number of empires and powerful cities rose, as well as the Catholic Church alongside it. However, exploits in the East would soon take its toll on the Christian Byzantine Empire. less	2024-04-26	Louise Matthews	H
Pleiades (partial)	20365	Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reus...moreing that information under open license. This is a subset of Pleiades data, including settlements, monuments, and physical geographic features. Credits: https://pleiades.stoa.org/credits less	2020-05-16	WHG Admin	H
Poland districts in the 16th century	105	105 districts in 16c Poland	2023-01-25	Tomasz Panecki	H
Poland localities in the 16th Century	24498	Localities in the 16th-century Polish Kingdom. The data is a result of a project dating back to the 1960s: "Historical Atlas of Poland. Detailed maps of the 16th century", The subject of the study (pu...moreblished in volumes from 1966 to 2021) are Polish lands in the second half of the 16th century. Each volume consists of two parts. The first includes a detailed main map (scale 1:250,000) showing settlement, relief, afforestation, parish network, state, and church administrative divisions, and roads, as well as overview maps (scale 1:500,000) dedicated to selected issues and plans of chosen cities (scale of 1:10,000). The second part is commentaries containing an overview of the source base, methods of elaboration, and lists of localities (including, name variations, and non-localized settlements) and physiographic names. less	2022-10-13	Tomasz Panecki	H
Poland provinces in the 16th century	23	23 provinces	2023-01-25	Tomasz Panecki	H
Pre-Colonial African Subregions	34	Pre-Colonial African Subregions with descriptions.	2023-04-19	WHG Admin	H
São Tomé and Principé Settlements	247	São Tomé and Principé Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Regional Office for West and Central Africa (ROWCA) and publicly available o...moren the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2023-12-15	Justin Piel	H
Senegal Settlements	14368	Senegal Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format an...mored cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-10-23	Justin Piel	H
Sierra Leone Settlements	9560	Sierra Leone Settlements as compiled by UN OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA) on the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and cleaned. Duplicate names, however close togethe...morer, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-01-04	Justin Piel	H
Somalia Settlements	11012	Somalia Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format an...mored cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-03-31	Justin Piel	H
South Sudan Settlements	18878	South Sudan Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV forma...moret and cleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-01-05	Justin Piel	H
Sq_ replacement names (US Board on Geographic Names)	643	In response to the Department of the Interior Secretarial Order 3404 this is the list of U.S. Board on Geographic Names approved official Sq_ replacement names. On November 19, 2021, Order 3404 declar...moreed "squaw" a derogatory term and implemented a procedure to remove the term from federal usage. less	2023-04-02	Ali Straub	H
Sudan Settlements	11989	Sudan Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and ...morecleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-04-08	Justin Piel	H
Theophanes Bulgaria Places	35	Places mentioned in conjunction with early Bulgars/Bulgaria by Theophanes Confessor in his Chronicle. Theophanes was an 8th/9th Century Byzantine Chronicler and Monk. This chronicle is one of the most...more important sources for knowledge about the early Bulgars. less	2023-11-02	Justin Piel	H
Togo Settlements	3609	Togo Settlements as compiled by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) publicly available via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Data transferred to LP-TSV format and c...moreleaned. Duplicate names, however close together, are distinct settlements according to the data. less	2024-03-29	Justin Piel	H
Truhart Historical Dictionary of States Entities	7028	Geopolitical entities referenced in Peter Truhart's Historical Dictionary of States	2023-10-07	Daniel Smith	H
Turtle Island Decolonized: Mapping Indigenous Names across “North America”	271	This dataset is a reproduction of cartographical data from "Turtle Island Decolonized: Mapping Indigenous Names across 'North America'" with the permission of the Decolonial Atlas. The dataset contain...mores nearly 300 names, representing about 150 languages. less	2024-03-20	Audrey Wolyniec	H
UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 2023		The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world consi...moredered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972. What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located. less	2024-08-27	Karl Grossner	H
US Counties	3890	17,000 polygons, temporally scoped	2023-07-21	WHG Admin	H
Viabundus	10393	Dataset of the project Viabundus, map of premodern European transport and mobility, v. 1.2.	2023-04-11	Bart Holterman	H
Villages Depopulated During Arab-Israeli Conflicts	108	A list of villages depopulated by conflicts between Arab and Israeli powers in the 19th and 20th centuries. This dataset does not include any information following 7 October 2023.	2023-11-14	Ali Straub	H
Voyage Around the Erythraean Sea	31	A collection of locations mentioned in the "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea" itinerary written in the early first century by an unknown author believed to be a merchant or scholar.	2022-12-05	Zach Lehning	H
Zimonyi Volga Bulgars	26	Places mentioned in István Zimonyi's book The Origins of the Volga Bulgars. This book covers the origins of the Bulgars, from their first mentions in the context of Old Great Bulgaria, through the 10t...moreh Century along the Volga River. less	2023-11-02	Justin Piel	H
D-PLACE	1428	D-PLACE (the Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment) contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’. A ‘society’ in D-PLACE rep...moreresents a group of people in a particular locality, who often share a language and cultural identity. All cultural descriptions are tagged with the date to which they refer and with the ethnographic sources that provided the descriptions. The majority of the cultural descriptions in D-PLACE are based on ethnographic work carried out in the 19th and early-20th centuries (pre-1950). Credits: https://d-place.org/about#team less	2019-10-18	WHG Admin	C
Getty TGN (partial)	1804270	1.8m records from Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (2016)	2019-10-09	WHG Admin	C

These dataset and place collections have been flagged "published" in WHG. Most are downloadable from their linked page. Public data contained therein are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

id	type	title	count	created	creator
25	dataset	An Historical Gazetteer of Ukraine	3224	2022-05-01	Karl Grossner
96	place	BTS and the Globalization of Talent	9	2022-10-08	Matthew Williams
101	place	The World of Koxinga	6	2022-10-10	Cathy Fratto
107	place	Voyage Around the Erythraean Sea	62	2022-11-05	Zach Lehning
116	dataset	Historical Atlas of Poland in the 16th century	24626	2023-01-26	Karl Grossner
134	place	Bulgar Origins and Travels	70	2023-09-10	Justin Piel
172	dataset	Indigenous Place Names in North America	1126	2024-01-15	Ali Straub
28	dataset	Dutch Global History	5702	2024-06-12	WHG Admin