<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In 1630, Guillaume Le Vasseur, sieur de Beauplan, travelled to the lands of Poland-Lithuania to begin a seventeen-year military career in the Crown army. The purpose of the <italic>Beauplan’s Ukraine</italic> (BU) project is to provide a set of open access, georeferenced databases for the populated places, rivers, river fords, river rapids, islands, forests, mountains, valleys, and travel paths that are shown on a selection of maps created by Beauplan. The purpose of this document is to describe how these databases and related materials can be accessed and applied by scholars, with the ultimate goal of this work being to convert the rich source of information provided by Beauplan’s maps into a viable instrument for the laboratory of the historian of south-eastern Europe in Early Modern times.</p></abstract>

In 1630, Guillaume Le Vasseur, sieur de Beauplan, travelled to the lands of Poland-Lithuania to begin a seventeen-year military career in the Crown army. The purpose of the Beauplan’s Ukraine (BU) project is to provide a set of open access, georeferenced databases for the populated places, rivers, river fords, river rapids, islands, forests, mountains, valleys, and travel paths that are shown on a selection of maps created by Beauplan. The purpose of this document is to describe how these databases and related materials can be accessed and applied by scholars, with the ultimate goal of this work being to convert the rich source of information provided by Beauplan’s maps into a viable instrument for the laboratory of the historian of south-eastern Europe in Early Modern times.

Beauplan’s Ukraine: open access georeferenced databases for studies of early modern history of Central and Eastern Europe

Miscellanea Geographica

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In 1630, Guillaume Le Vasseur, sieur de Beauplan, travelled to the lands of Poland-Lithuania to begin a seventeen-year military career in the Crown army. The...

Beauplan’s Ukraine: open access georeferenced databases for studies of early modern history of Central and Eastern Europe

Published Online: Jul 31, 2019

Page range: 185 - 193

Received: Dec 08, 2018

Accepted: Mar 18, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0015

Keywords
Beauplan, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Ottoman Empire, frontier studies

© 2019 Michael Polczynski, Mark Polczynski, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Beauplan’s Ukraine: open access georeferenced databases for studies of early modern history of Central and Eastern Europe

Published Online: Jul 31, 2019

Page range: 185 - 193

Received: Dec 08, 2018

Accepted: Mar 18, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0015

KeywordsBeauplan, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Ottoman Empire, frontier studies

© 2019 Michael Polczynski, Mark Polczynski, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Beauplan, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Ottoman Empire, frontier studies