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Wolff, R. L.; Hazard, H. W. (ed.) / The later Crusades, 1189-1311
(1969)
Gazetteer and Note on Maps, pp. 763-811
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GAZETTEER AND NOTE ON MAPS This gazetteer has been prepared to fill a variety of functions. Every place name found in the text or on the maps is here alphabetized and identified, variant spellings and equivalent names in other languages are supplied, and the map location is indicated by key letters. Thus it not only serves as an index to the maps, and a supplement to them, but is in itself a source for reference on matters of historical geography and changing nomenclature. Names originating in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, or Armenian have been carefully transliterated according to the systems described in the prefatory note on transliteration and nomenclature. In the gazetteer, alphabetization is by the first capital letter of the form used in maps and text, disregarding such lower-case prefixes as al- and such geographical words as Cape, Gulf, Lake, Mount, and the like. The designation classical may mean Greek, Latin, biblical, or other ancient usage, and the designa tion medieval generally means that the name in question was in common use among speakers of various languages during the crusades, or appears in contemporary sources. The maps themselves fall into two groups: ten locational and thirteen historical. On the locational maps may be found nearly every place name occurring in the text, except a few whose exact locations are unknown, a few outside the regions mapped, several in areas overcrowded with names, some of minimal importance or common knowledge, and many which occur only in names of crusaders or other persons. The six locational maps appearing in volume I have been revised, and maps of the Straits and Aegean, Frankish Greece, Languedoc, and Cyprus have been added. The historical series comprises maps showing the changing fortunes of the crusaders and their Christian rivals and Moslem enemies between 1189 and 1311. All place names on this 763
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