America ; History of cartography ; Italians ; Old map ; Place names ; Portolan ; Sixteenth Century
The anonymous and undated Ms. Egerton 2803, a 16thcentury manuscript portolan atlas, can be found at the British Library. Although the A. cannot completely agree with some early 20thcentury historians of cartography who believe that Genoese
be determinated because of the variety of his interests and the extraordinary number of sources utilised. The maps representing the most peripheral regions of the 16thcentury ecumene provide a helping hand to establish the date of the relic. The analysis
18th-20thcentury flood-induced changes in the landscapes of the Mała Wisła Valley within the Qświęcimska Basin
to this day was also put in place (in the 16th-17th centuries). Numerous floods regularly devastated the ponds, and the receding of floodwaters was followed by the rebuilding of ponds. This brought significant changes in the landscape of the valley.
appeared in the 13th century and were perfected from the 15th-16thcenturies. The industrial potential of hydropower, estimated at 2.7 million hp at the turn of the 19th-20thcentury, was principally exploited in the Carpathians. The study gives an overview
The hydropower of the Carpathian Basin was first utilised by mills for grinding cereals in the 11th century. More sophisticated power machines, such as the pumps used in mines, lumber mills, forge mills and other machinery of this type, first
of the East European - i.e. Ukrainian - steppe from the 16th through 20thcenturies. The research results on the Great Hungarian Plain are applied to understand the development of the Ukrainian steppe territory as a marginal zone. - (AM)
Century16th ; Discoveries ; Geostrategy ; Journey;Trip ; Navigation ; North America ; Trade;Commerce
During the 16thcentury, French kings, thoroughly engaged in the Italian wars, had no real ocean policy, no maritime geostrategy. They came late in 17th century to build a new colonial empire, too late perhaps to give new directions or new impulses
Some aspects of the transformation of the Hungarian peasantry in the 20thcentury in The peasantry of Eastern Europe. Volume II. 20 th Century developments.
the first major account of the development of geographic thought in Sweden, and also traces continuity and change in cognitive styles science, society and sources of geography in Sweden from the 16th to the 20thcenturies, discussing the works and ideas
Croatian coastlines on maps and sea charts from 16th to 19th century = Obala hrvatske na pomorskim i geografskim kartama old 16. do 19. stoljeca. (Serbo-Croate