four new historical maps of Galicia now on the Gesher Galicia Map Room #ukraine
Jay Osborn <jay.osborn@...>
Four new and beautiful historical maps of the Kingdom of Galicia are
now on the Gesher Galicia Map Room: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/ These maps span 1775 to 1872, including one of the earliest maps in our collection, a very early road map >from 1820, and some of the best map designs we've seen. The four maps on our site are all thanks to Areta Kovalska and her Forgotten Galicia blog site, which featured them among many other maps of Galicia in a special post one year ago: http://forgottengalicia.com/historical-maps-of-galicia-1775-1918/ Regular users of GG's Map Room will recognize many of the maps in the Forgotten Galicia list, but the research behind the post found several maps we had not discovered, including the four we processed for our own recent post. Once you are on the Forgotten Galicia site, if this is your first visit you really owe it to yourself to browse the well-curated collection of articles, which report on Areta's research into multicultural Galician history including the physical traces of Galician art and industrial works still to be found in today's cities and towns, >from monumental architecture to fragments of tiles and paint. Already seven years in development, and covering language, music, art, and literature, the site works much like the ghost signs it features - revealing the layers of history visible in the modern sights. We hope you enjoy Forgotten Galicia and find it as useful as we do; it makes a great companion on a real or virtual visit to Galicia today. The four new maps are: One of the earliest kingdom-wide maps in our collection, this 1775 administrative map by Gussefeld is colorful and detailed, making it an important reference >from the first years of Austrian rule: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/galicia/galicia-gussefeld-1775/ An 1820 road map of the kingdom, by Johann Blaim of the imperial roads and bridges administration, showing road types and quality along with selected administrative points, schools and centers of religion, and both natural and man-made resources: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/galicia/galicia-blaim-1820/ A map of the full kingdom made by Weiland in 1849 - a revised version of an earlier Weiland map in our collection: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/galicia/galicia-weiland-1849/ The very well-designed Miczynski map of Galicia >from 1872, originally intended for use in schools in the kingdom: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/galicia/galicia-miczynski-1872/ Jay Osborn Gesher Galicia Digital Map Manager Lviv, Ukraine maps@geshergalicia.org
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