Gazetteer_Russian-3verst_map

The gazetteer contains 6,446 macro toponyms manually map mined for the Russian military topographic map at scale of 3 verst (1:126,000).

The gazetteer is available in the format of a CSV spreadsheet with 6 columns. It provides the following information for all of the toponyms:

• longitude
• latitude
• Name

Indicates the toponym as it appears on the map

• Description

Indicates the modern name of the settlement in the original spelling and alphabet of the belongingcountry

• AltName

Indicates settlements indicated on the map with more than one name

• Type

Indicates the category of the toponym assigned by Boykov: bath; bridge; chapel; fortress; fulling-mill; han; monastery; mosque; ore deposits; ruins; settlement; settlement_chiftlik; settlement_huts; sheepfold; spring; stud; teke; tower; villa; watermill; winery; winter pasture.

The gazetteer is a work in progress and your feedback is highly appreciated. Please do not hesitate to contact at grigor.boykov@univie.ac.at and griboykov@gmail.com

If you would like to use the gazetteer in further publication, please use the credentials specified below:

Grigor Boykov. (2023). Boykov_Gazetteer_Russian-3verst_map. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8411078

Acknowledgments: Boykov received partial funding from the Bulgarian Science Fund and the National Research Program Cultural Heritage, National Memory and Society Development of the Ministry of Education and Science in Bulgaria for developing the gazetteer. Data extraction was carried out by Hristo Hristozov of the University of Plovdiv and Alexander Zhabov of the University of Sofia.