Cities, Europe, Year 1100

Description:

This shapefile represents cities of Europe for the year 1100. Cities represents all inhabited places. The cities are ranked in 5 categories according to their importance. Big towns get number 5 and small villages number 1. This layer is part of the Euratlas Georeferenced Vector Data collection that is composed of 21 maps, one for each century from year 1 to year 2000. These maps depict the detailed political situation of Europe at the first day of each centennial year C.E. from year 1 to 2000. Each map is composed of two kinds of layers: physical features layers, such as seas and rivers, and political features layers, such as states and cities. Some layers also cover adjacent portions of North Africa and the Middle East.

Creator:

Euratlas-Nussli, Nussli, Christos, and Nussli, Marc-Antoine

Publisher:

Euratlas-Nussli

Provider:

Harvard

Collection:

Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Point data

Subject:

Cities and towns, Villages, Human settlements, and location

Temporal Coverage:

1100

Date Issued:

2010

Spatial Coverage:

Europe

Access Rights:

Restricted

Format:

Shapefile