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"Central Europe remains a region of ongoing change and continuing significance in the contemporary world. This third, fully revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe takes into consideration recent changes in the region. The 120 full-colour maps, each accompanied by an explanatory text, provide a concise visual survey of political, economic, demographic, cultural, and religious developments from the fall of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century to the present. No less show more than 19 countries are the subject of this atlas. In terms of today's borders, those countries include Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus in the north; the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia in the Danubian Basin; and Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, and Greece in the Balkans. Much attention is also given to areas immediately adjacent to the central European core: historic Prussia, Venetia, western Anatolia, and Ukraine west of the Dnieper River. Embedded in the text are 48 updated administrative and statistical tables. The value of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe as an authoritative reference tool is further enhanced by an extensive bibliography and a gazetteer of place names--in up to 29 language variants--that appear on the maps and in the text. The Historical Atlas of Central Europe is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, journalists, and general readers who wish to have a fuller understanding of this critical area, with its many peoples, languages, and continued political upheaval"--Publisher's description show lessTags
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Many historical atlases are more about photos than maps. This is a rich, detailed collection of maps depicting every facet of Eastern European history, from religious conversions to the spread of universities. I find the medieval city maps especially enjoyable.
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Paul Robert Magocsi is a noted scholar in the fields of history, cartography, sociolinguistics, bibliography, and immigrant studies. He is holder of the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, and since 1996 elected full member of the Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences-Royal Society of Canada. Among show more his nearly 800 publications there are 34 books including Historical Atlas of Central Europe (1993/2002), A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples (1996/2011), and he is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples (1999) and the Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (2002, 2005). show less
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