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Data Sources

http://www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html
This site is maintained by Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek to support online research in the field of dromography and provide a public-access electronic archive of geo/chrono-referenced data on land, river and maritime trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 10,000 BCE - circa 1820 CE.
http://fat-albert.alexandria.ucsb.edu:8827/gazetter
Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
http://www.nima.mil/gns.html
GEOnet Names Server of NIMA, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp
German Space Operations Center Gazetteer (GSOC).
http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA.
http://www.calle.com/world/index.html
Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns: Global Gazetteer, falling Rain Genomics, Inc.

This page is currently being revised. Most of the links that are currently included are to gazetteers of geographic locations. They are the ones that I used most often and were provided by Dr. T. Matthew Ciolekof the Australian National University. He provides many more resources on his web site.

If you have trouble with a link, or if you have comments, please send them to J. B. Owens at OWENJACK@ISU.EDU, or if your system will support this operation, send a message now. Please include your name and e-mail address in the body of your message.


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J. B. Owens
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Revised: 23 July 2001

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