Static spatial data on territories of the Holy Roman Empire
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2021-03-02
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Abstract
This data set captures static spatial and non-spatial aspects of territories of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) in 16th century Europe. Each line in the data files corresponds to a territory and each column to an attribute. Spatial attributes are the geo-coordinates of the perimeter of the territories. This allows us to map territories on a map, compute neighbourhood relations and surface areas. Non-spatial attributes include the foundation year of the territory or its official denomination (e.g., Lutheran). This data set was automatically generated based on a modern political map of the HRE around 1400 and the Wikipedia pages of HRE territories. A sister data set exists with spatio-temporal attributes of territories that were manually extracted (doi=10.3929/ethz-b-000472583).
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Contact person : Roller, Ramona
Data collector : Roller, Ramona
Research group : Schweitzer, Frank
Researcher : Roller, Ramona
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ETH Zurich, Chair of Systems Design
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QGIS, python
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2020-01-04/2020-02-12
Subject
map vectorization; territorial states; Holy Roman Empire; Reformation; geo-spatial data; H-GIS
Organisational unit
03682 - Schweitzer, Frank (emeritus) / Schweitzer, Frank (emeritus)