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CLOSEThe Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (IHR/NHRF) hosts a Laboratory of Digital Historical Cartography. The new Laboratory, utilizing the applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), aims to produce original, primarily digital, thematic maps, which will present information from diverse historical and archaeological sources in a documented, comprehensible, and aesthetically refined manner, with the capability to cover the entire chronological spectrum of Greek history.
As for the SNR, the project “Historical Study of Settlements in Greece, 15th-19th Centuries” is an early example of spatial approaches, aiming to study the historical formation of the Greek space. This also includes studies of environmental history relating to modern times.
This cluster houses projects that fall under the following directions/thematic areas:
Human–Environment Interaction
George Vlachos
Historical Formation of Space
History of Settlements in Greece (15th–21st centuries)
Dimitris Dimitropoulos
Karytaina: Archival Research and documentation – The History of the Settlement in Modern Era
Maria Christina Chatziioannou
Travel literature on Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean. Database
Ourania Polycandrioti
Digital Historical Atlas of Greek ‘Micronesia’: Mapping the Northern Dodecanese – HAGMi
George Koutzakiotis