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Last week I checked on the commune project, a historical #GIS for the adminstrative and logistical #history of #France. Turns out it has been published for some time now... This #dataset certainly deserves more attention: 👇
https://zenodo.org/records/19697170
I added the dataset to my small collection of national #hgis data sources (contributions welcomed)
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Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 10 new and 63 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 15 people and projects. The usual Monday blog post will summarize the full week's worth of such work, but meantime, here's a #SneakPeek at a new place resource provided by Chris de Lisle: the so-called "Temple with the indented niches".
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/812787380
It was the main ancient sanctuary at Ai Khanoum (Takhar Province, Afghanistan), built in a mixture of Greek and Mesopotamian styles under the #Seleucids and rebuilt under the #Diodotids in the 240s BCE, again in the early 2rd century BCE and in the reign of Eukratides (ca. 170-140 BCE).
#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #ancientReligion #archaeology #classics #DH #gazetteers #HGIS