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	2023-02-13	whgadmin	H
An Historical Atlas of Central Asia	759	This dataset comprises 759 place records, digitized in 2018 from 15 of the 48 maps in this scholarly atlas. The maps' extensive sources, detailed in the Preface and Notes, include "...all reliable gen...moreeral 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	2022-11-22	whgadmin	H
Archaeological Sites of the Mosul Dam Reservoir Survey	149	This dataset contains places from a map of archeological sites compiled from a general survey of the Iraqi State Organization for Antiquities and Heritage (SOAH) in 1980 for the Mosul Dam salvage proj...moreect. Between 1981 and 1988 the Mosul Dam was built on the River Tigris resulting in upstream flooding and the creation of the Mosul Reservoir. Starting in 1981, the SOAH as well as local and foreign archeologists, began the work of excavating sites that would be affected by the construction of the dam. Over the period of six years, more than 60 sites were excavated. Most sites on the map had been previously unknown prior to the 1980 survey. less	2023-03-06	als512	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).	2023-06-02	rjstapel	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. less	2023-05-13	whgadmin	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 381 prefectures for the year ...more1911. less	2023-04-29	whgadmin	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 27 provinces for the year 191...more1. less	2023-04-14	whgadmin	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. This dataset ...morecontains 40,017 towns for the year 1911. less	2023-05-11	whgadmin	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).	2022-09-28	rjstapel	H
Cyprus Settlements	1376	Collection of 1,376 places from the Cypriot settlement dataset created as part of the project ‘EIDOS of a City: simulating the collapse and resilience of ancient Eastern Mediterranean urban environmen...morets via agent-based modelling.’ The Cypriot settlement dataset is the first large-scale, publicly available dataset of settlements in Cyprus that includes broad temporal information. The temporal coverage is from 11000 BCE to 1878 CE, from the Cypriot Late Epipalaeolithic to the Cypriot Ottoman period. This temporal information aims to help in the understanding of settlement persistence. The original dataset contains information about periods of occupation and occupation time spans not included in this platform. The temporal information related to each place in this platform represents the earliest and latest known dates of occupation. Katherine A. Crawford is responsible for the data entry and management of the Cypriot settlement dataset. Marc-Antoine Vella contributed a portion of the settlements. less	2023-03-20	als512	H
Damast	447	trial only	2023-05-30	Sinai	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.	2023-01-29	whgadmin	H
Geographic Names of Antarctica	63	A sample of geographic names in Antarctica in Gazetteer of the Antarctica, a cooperative project of the the Geological Survey (U.S.), National Mapping Division; National Science Foundation (U.S.). Div...moreision of Polar Programs; United States Board on Geographic Names; and United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic/Topographic Center. less	2022-11-16	als512	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	2023-02-01	WStangl	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	2023-02-02	WStangl	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	2023-05-31	als512	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	als512	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	als512	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	2022-11-30	rjstapel	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	2023-02-26	rjstapel	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	2023-03-20	npkfrolov	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	2023-01-04	whgadmin	H
Places related to the life of Koxinga	2	GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge. This dataset contains places from GeoNames that were imp...moreortant to the life of Koxinga, a Ming loyalist general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century. less	2023-03-17	als512	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 less	2020-07-23	whgadmin	H
Poland districts in the 16th century	105	105 districts in 16c Poland	2023-01-25	tpanecki	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	2023-04-20	tpanecki	H
Poland provinces in the 16th century	23	23 provinces	2023-03-20	tpanecki	H
Pre-Colonial African Subregions	34	Pre-Colonial African Subregions with descriptions.	2023-04-19	whgadmin	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	als512	H
Truhart Historical Dictionary of States Entities	7028	Geopolitical entities referenced in Peter Truhart's Historical Dictionary of States	2023-05-15	smithds	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.	2023-03-20	zzz	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). less	2023-01-20	whgadmin	C
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)	2023-05-10	whgadmin	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
1	dataset	HGIS de las Indias	14150	2021-06-18	whgadmin
2	dataset	Dutch Global History	5702	2021-06-18	whgadmin
21	place	Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of the Aztec Empire	35	2022-04-26	grunewas
25	dataset	An Historical Gazetteer of Ukraine	3224	2022-05-01	whgadmin
50	place	The World of Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), 1745-1797	57	2022-06-29	rmostern
101	place	The World of Koxinga	6	2022-10-10	caf
107	place	Voyage Around the Erythraean Sea	31	2022-11-05	zzz
116	dataset	Historical Atlas of Poland in the 16th century	24626	2023-01-26	whgadmin