GISta Hungarorum – An Integrated and Visualized
Municipal Level HGIS Database of the Kingdom
of Hungary and Its Successor States (1330–2010)
GISta Hungarorum – An Integrated and Visualized
Municipal Level HGIS Database of the Kingdom
of Hungary and Its Successor States (1330–2010)
Author(s): Gábor Demeter, Beatrix F. Romhányi, Éva Simon, János Pénzes, István Papp, Zsolt Horbulák, Róbert BagdiSubject(s): Historical Geography, Applied Geography
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne
Keywords: hGIS; digital humanities; fi ne-scale databases; statistical analysis; historical geography; regional inequalities; development trends; longue durée history; Kingdom of Hungar;
Summary/Abstract: Project GISta Hungarorum (2014–)aims to collect, integrate and visualize settle-ment level serial data sources from the 14th tothe 21st centuries for the former area of theKingdom of Hungary and Croatia (12,500 set-tlements, 300,000 sq. km), partly published on-line by the National Archives of Hungary, partlyunpublished, in a form of a geospatial database(http://gistahungarorum.abtk.hu). This um-brella project links historical research and mod-ern territorial planning through its GIS-aidedapproach and off ers new insights into unsettledhistorical questions through hundreds of thematiccartograms and the statistical analysis of 10 millionrecords.
Journal: Studia Geohistorica
- Issue Year: 2025
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 67-88
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
