Gazetteer_Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa

The gazetteer contains 21,524 macro toponyms, manually map mined from the Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa (1:200,000), a result of the 3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary.
The gazetteer is formatted as a CSV spreadsheet with seven columns. For each toponym, it provides the following information:

longitude
latitude
Name
Indicates the toponym as it appears on the map

Description
Indicates the settlement's modern name using the original spelling and alphabet of its respective country.

AltName
Indicates settlements indicated on the map with more than one name

Type
Indicates the category of the toponym assigned by Boykov: arsenal; barracks; bath; bridge; chapel; church; customs office; factory; fishery; fishing weir; fortress; han; hospital; institute; karaul; lighthouse; lithography; mandra; melting house; metochion; military depot; military station; military supply spot; mill; mine; mine_quicksilver; mine_ salt; monastery; ore deposits; paddy field; palace; pasture; port; quarantine; residence; road tunnel; ruins; ruins. fortress; saltworks; school; settlement; settlement_chiftlik; settlement_huts; sheepfold; stud; summer pasture; tabiya; teke; tower; train station; villa; water spring; watermill; winery; winter pasture

Country
Indicates the modern state in which the toponym falls: Bulgaria (BG); Greece (GRE); Kosovo (KOS); N. Macedonia (MK); Romania (RO); Serbia (SER); Turkey (TR)

The gazetteer is a work in progress and your feedback is highly appreciated. Please do not hesitate to contact at:  [e-mail] and [e-mail]

If you would like to use the gazetteer in further publication, please use the credentials specified below:
Grigor Boykov. (2023). Boykov_Gazetteer_Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa (v.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8409507
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.