Euratlas Historical Vector Data
The Euratlas Historical Vector Data describe the political situation in Europe at the turn of each century A.D. The map covers Europe from 15 degrees west to 50 degrees east, 20 degrees north to 60 degrees north. Duke Univeristy is licensed to provide this data to current Duke Univeristy students, faculty, and staff for four centuries, listed below.
Each archive provides all shapefiles associated with the listed century. The shapefiles included vary by century, but all contain shapefiles identifying the following:
- Political: autonomous peoples, cities, second level administrative regions, sovereign states, and sovereign dependent states, each in both Latin-1 and UTF-8 formats.
- Political: Uncertain borders as a complement to sovereign state borders. These are unnamed polygons.
- Physical: Major rivers, minor rivers, seas.
Later years also contain first level administrative regions and supranational entities, each in both Latin-1 and UTF-8 formats.
Archive of All Shapefiles by Century
1st century A.D. /
See the bibliography
7th century A.D. /
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13th century A.D. /
See the bibliography
19th century A.D. /
See the bibliography
Data description for all included shapefiles in each archive
919-660-5870
(Perkins Circulation Desk)
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