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BSZLAK Project Description
No full textSzlak, a Polish word meaning “trail”, was the name given to paths used to traverse the Pontic Steppe in the early modern period. Regular roads were virtually non-existent, and overland travel tended to follow general paths that conducted travelers between destinations as expeditiously as possible by avoiding rugged terrain such as mountains, ravines, and difficult river crossings. The BSZLAK project attempts to trace 17th century szlak routes that were of particular importance to the Black Sea slave trade that saw the abduction or death of some two million individuals from the region from 1500-1700. The primary sources used to trace these paths are fifteen maps by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan produced in the mid-1600’s. Beauplan’s maps show populated places, rivers, river crossings, river rapids, forests, mountains, and valleys that can be associated with places shown on modern maps, thereby providing landmarks for tracing szlak paths. This project traces the Czarny Szlak, Kuczmanski Szlak, and Moraski Szlak routes, and also traces routes of minor trails shown on Beauplan’s maps
GBU Presentation Movie
No full textMovie version of the GBU PowerPoint presentation. Also available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmltRF6R5
GBU Presentation
No full textThis PowerPoint presentation describes the GBU project. Open as "Read Only" and play as slide show for audio narration. You can also view a video of the presentation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmltRF6R5o&feature=youtu.b
GBU Presentation
No full textThis PowerPoint presentation describes the GBU project. Open as "Read Only" and play as slide show for audio narration. You can also view a video of the presentation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmltRF6R5o&feature=youtu.b
GBU Presentation Movie
No full textMovie version of the GBU PowerPoint presentation. Also available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmltRF6R5
Szlak Routes
No full textShape file and associated files tracing routes of the Czarny, Kuczmanski, and Moraski Szlak
BSZLAK Project Description
No full textSzlak, a Polish word meaning “trail”, was the name given to paths used to traverse the Pontic Steppe in the early modern period. Regular roads were virtually non-existent, and overland travel tended to follow general paths that conducted travelers between destinations as expeditiously as possible by avoiding rugged terrain such as mountains, ravines, and difficult river crossings. The BSZLAK project attempts to trace 17th century szlak routes that were of particular importance to the Black Sea slave trade that saw the abduction or death of some two million individuals from the region from 1500-1700. The primary sources used to trace these paths are fifteen maps by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan produced in the mid-1600’s. Beauplan’s maps show populated places, rivers, river crossings, river rapids, forests, mountains, and valleys that can be associated with places shown on modern maps, thereby providing landmarks for tracing szlak paths. This project traces the Czarny Szlak, Kuczmanski Szlak, and Moraski Szlak routes, and also traces routes of minor trails shown on Beauplan’s maps
GBU Project Description
No full textThe purpose of this GBU project description is to: 1) enable users of the GBU database to understand the structure and contents of the database; 2) help people new to the task of constructing a gazetteer to avoid common pitfalls and improve the efficiency and quality of their work
Travel Map Place and Route Tables
No full textThis .zip file contains a table in .csv format of the places as mentioned in West's book and a table of travel routes between places as described in the book, both in .csv format
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