Route Map from the 1891 "Grain Dealers and Shippers Gazetteer"]]
A
gazetteer is a geographical
dictionary or
directory, an important reference for information about places and place names (see:
toponymy), used in conjunction with a
map or a full
atlas. It typically contains information concerning the
geographical makeup of a
country,
region, or
continent as well as the
social statistics and physical features, such as
mountains,
waterways, or
roads. Examples of information provided by gazetteers include the location of places, dimensions of physical features,
population,
GDP,
literacy rate, etc. This information is generally divided into overhead topics with entries listed in alphabetical order.
Gazetteers of ancient Greece existed since the Hellenistic era. The first known gazetteer of China appeared by the 1st century, and with the age of print media in China by the 9th century, the Chinese gentry became invested in producing gazetteers for their local areas as a source of information as well as local pride. Although existent only in fragments, the geographer Stephanus of Byzantium wrote a geographical dictionary in the 6th century which influenced later European compilers of gazetteers by the 16th century. Modern gazetteers can be found in reference sections of most libraries as well as on the Web.
The word was occasionally used in newspaper titles, although it has long fallen out of fashion. See The York Gazetteer.
Etymology
The
Oxford English Dictionary defines the "gazetteer" as a "geographical index or dictionary". Historian Robert C. White suggests that the "very eminent person" written of by Echard was his colleague
Edmund Bohun, and chose not to mention Bohun because he became associated with the
Jacobite movement.
Types and organization
Gazetteers are often categorized by the type, and scope, of the information presented.
World gazetteers usually consist of an alphabetical listing of countries, with pertinent
statistics for each one, with some gazetteers listing information on individual
cities,
towns,
villages, and other
settlements of varying sizes.
Short-form gazetteers, often used in conjunction with computer mapping and
GIS systems, may simply contain a list of place-names together with their locations in
latitude and
longitude or other
spatial referencing systems (e.g.
British National Grid reference). Short-form gazetteers appear as a place-name index in the rear of major published atlases.
Descriptive gazetteers may include lengthy textual descriptions of the places they contain, including explanation of
industries,
government,
geography, together with historical perspectives, maps and / or photographs.
Thematic gazetteers list places or geographical features by theme; for example fishing ports,
nuclear power stations, or historic buildings. Their common element is that the geographical location is an important attribute of the features listed.
Gazetteer editors gather facts and other information from official government reports, the census, chambers of commerce, together with numerous other sources, and organise these in digest form.
History
Western world
Hellenistic and Greco-Roman eras
, reconstituted from Ptolemy's
Geographia (circa 150), indicating the countries of "
Serica" and "Sinae" (
China) at the extreme right, beyond the island of "Taprobane" (
Sri Lanka, oversized) and the "Aurea Chersonesus" (
Malay Peninsula).]]
's map of
London published in 1593]]
's map of "
Bedforde", from his
Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published in 1611]]
of the
British Indian Empire," from the Imperial Gazetteer of
India,
Oxford University Press, 1909]]
's "A New Map of North America Shewing all the New Discoveries" from his gazetteer of 1797.]]
In his journal article "Alexander and the Ganges" (1923), the 20th century historian W.W. Tarn calls a list and description of
satrapies of
Alexander's Empire written between 324 and 323 BC as an ancient gazetteer. Tarn notes that the document is dated no later than June 323 BC, since it features
Babylon as not yet partitioned by Alexander's generals. It was revised by the Greek historian
Diodorus Siculus in the 1st century BC. Historian Truesdell S. Brown asserts that what Dionysius' describes in this quote about the logographers should be categorized not as a true "history" but rather as a gazetteer.
Perhaps predating Greek gazetteers were those made in ancient Egypt. Although she does not specifically label the document as a gazetteer, Penelope Wilson (PhD, Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University) describes an ancient Egyptian papyrus found at the site of Tanis, Egypt (a city founded during the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt) which provides the following for each administrative area of Egypt at the time:
...the name of a nome capital, its sacred barque, its sacred tree, its cemetery, the date of its festival, the names of forbidden objects, the local god, land, and lake of the city. This interesting codification of data, probably made by a priest, is paralleled by very similar editions of data on the temple walls at Edfu, for example. However, the Domesday Book does detail the fact that out of 3,558 registered houses destroyed in 112 different boroughs listed, 410 of these destroyed houses were the direct result of castle construction and expansion. In 1316, the Nomina Villarum survey was initiated by Edward II of England; it was essentially a list of all the administrative subdivisions throughout England which could be utilized by the state in order to assess how much military troops could be conscripted and summoned from each region. The Speculum Britanniae (1596) of the Tudor era English cartographer and topographer John Norden (1548–1625) had an alphabetical list of places throughout England with headings showing their administrative hundreds and referenced to attached maps. Englishman John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine published in 1611 provided gazetteers for counties throughout England, which included illustrative maps, short local histories, a list of administrative hundreds, an index of parishes, and the coordinates of longitude and latitude for county towns. Starting in 1662, the Hearth Tax Returns with attached maps of local areas were compiled by individual parishes throughout England while a duplicate of their records were sent to the central government offices of the Exchequer. In his work, Edmund Bohun attributed the first known Western geographical dictionary to geographer Stephanus of Byzantium (fl. 6th century) while also noting influence in his work from the Thesaurus Geographicus (1587) by the Belgian cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598), but stated that Ortelius' work dealt largely with ancient geography and not up-to-date information. He divided this work into overhead topics of cities, rivers, mountains, and lakes and swamps. With the gradual expansion of Laurence Echard's (d. 1730) gazetteer of 1693, it too became a universal geographical dictionary that was translated into Spanish in 1750, into French in 1809, and into Italian in 1810.
Following the American Revolutionary War, United States clergyman and historian Jeremy Belknap and Postmaster General Ebenezer Hazard intended to create the first post-revolutionary geographical works and gazetteers, but they were anticipated by the clergyman and geographer Jedidiah Morse with his Geography Made Easy in 1784. However, Morse was unable to finish the gazetteer in time for his 1784 geography and postponed it. With the aid of Noah Webster and Rev. Samuel Austin, Morse finally published his gazetteer The American Universal Geography in 1797. However, Morse's gazetteer did not receive distinction by literary critics, as gazetteers were deemed as belonging to a lower literary class. The reviewer of Joseph Scott's 1795 gazetteer commented that it was "little more than medleys of politics, history and miscellaneous remarks on the manners, languages and arts of different nations, arranged in the order in which the territories stand on the map."
Modern era
Gazetteers became widely popular in Britain in the 19th century, with publishers such as Fullarton, Mackenzie, Chambers and W & A.K. Johnston, many of whom were Scottish, meeting public demand for information on an expanding Empire. This British tradition continues in the electronic age with innovations such as the National Land and Property Gazetteer, the text-based Gazetteer for Scotland, and the new (2008) National Gazetteer (for Scotland), formerly known as the Definitive National Address – Scotland National Gazetteer. In addition to local or regional gazetteers, there have also been comprehensive world gazetteers published; an early example would be the 1912 world gazetteer published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. There are also interregional gazetteers with a specific focus, such as the gazetteer of the Swedish atlas "Das Bästas Bilbok" (1969), a road atlas and guide for Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.
East Asia
China
of Emperor Yang of Sui, painted by Yan Liben in 643. Emperor Yang had every commandery in his unified empire collate gazetteers for the central government.]]
'), a Ming Dynasty gazetteer printed in 1624 with 40 different woodblock printed scenes of 17th century Nanjing.]]
'), a Chinese Qing Dynasty illustration of a Muslim akhoond (Chinese: ahong) from 1772. In 1755, the Qianlong Emperor sent an army to put down a Khoja rebellion in Kashgar. Several officers from that campaign aided in the compilation of this gazetteer.]]
Prefectural Gazetteer," published in 1696 during Kangxi's reign of Qing Dynasty]]
In Han Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD) China, the Yuejue Shu (越絕書) written in 52 AD is considered by modern sinologists and historians to be the prototype of the gazetteer (Chinese: difangzhi), as it contained essays on a wide variety of subjects including changes in territorial division, the founding of cities, local products, and customs. There are over 8,000 gazetteers of pre-modern China that have survived. Gazetteers became more common in the Song Dynasty (960–1279), yet the bulk of surviving gazetteers were written during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Gazetteers from this era focused on boundaries and territory, place names, mountains and rivers, ancient sites, local products, local myths and legends, customs, botany, topography, and locations of palaces, streets, temples, etc. By the Tang Dynasty the gazetteer became much more geographically specific, with a broad amount of content arranged topically; for example, there would be individual sections devoted to local astronomy, schools, dikes, canals, post stations, altars, local deities, temples, tombs, etc. By the Song Dynasty it became more common for gazetteers to provide biographies of local celebrities, accounts of elite local families, bibliographies, and literary anthologies of poems and essays dedicated to famous local spots. Song gazetteers also made lists and descriptions of city walls, gate names, wards and markets, districts, population size, and residences of former prefects.
In 610, after the Sui Dynasty (581–618) united a politically divided China, Emperor Yang of Sui had all the empire's commanderies prepare gazetteers called 'maps and treatises' (Chinese: tujing) so that a vast amount of updated textual and visual information on local roads, rivers, canals, and landmarks could be utilized by the central government to maintain control and provide better security. Although the earliest extant Chinese maps date to the 4th century BC, and tujing since the Qin (221–206 BC) or Han dynasties, this was the first known instance in China when the textual information of tujing became the primary element over the drawn illustrations. This Sui Dynasty process of providing maps and visual aids in written gazetteers—as well as the submitting of gazetteers with illustrative maps by local administrations to the central government—was continued in every subsequent Chinese dynasty.
Historian James M. Hargett states that by the time of the Song Dynasty, gazetteers became far more geared towards serving the current political, administrative, and military concerns than in gazetteers of previous eras, while there were many more gazetteers compiled on the local and national levels than in previous eras. Emperor Taizu of Song ordered Lu Duosun and a team of cartographers and scholars in 971 to initiate the compilation of a huge atlas and nationwide gazetteer that covered the whole of China proper, This project was completed in 1010 by a team of scholars under Song Zhun, who presented it in 1,566 chapters to the throne of Emperor Zhenzong. Furthermore, the fangzhi were almost always printed because they were intended for a large reading audience, whereas tujing were exclusive records read by the local officials who drafted them and the central government officials who collected them. By the 16th century—during the Ming Dynasty—local gazetteers were commonly composed due to local decision-making rather than a central government mandate. Historian Peter K. Bol states that local gazetteers composed in this manner were the result of increased domestic and international trade that facilitated greater local wealth throughout China.
While working in the Department of Arms, the Tang Dynasty cartographer Jia Dan (730–805) and his colleagues would acquire information from foreign envoys about their respective homelands, and from these interrogations would produce maps supplemented by textual information. Even within China, ethnographic information on ethnic minorities of non-Han peoples were often described in the local histories and gazetteers of provinces such as Guizhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties. As the Qing Dynasty pushed further with its troops and government authorities into areas of Guizhou that were uninhabited and not administered by the Qing government, the official gazetteers of the region would be revised to include the newly drawn-up districts and non-Han ethnic groups (mostly Miao peoples) therein. By 1673, the Guizhou gazetteers featured different written entries for the various Miao peoples of the region.
Historian Timothy Brook states that Ming Dynasty gazetteers demonstrate a shift in the attitudes of Chinese gentry towards the traditionally lower merchant class. Hence, the gentry figures composing the gazetteers in the latter half of the Ming period spoke favorably of merchants, whereas before they were rarely mentioned.
Although better known for his work on the Gujin Tushu Jicheng encyclopedia, the early-to-mid Qing scholar Jiang Tingxi aided other scholars in the compilation of the "Daqing Yitongzhi" ('Gazetteer of the Qing Empire'). This was provided with a preface in 1744 (more than a decade after Jiang's death), revised in 1764, and reprinted in 1849. while comprehensive world gazetteers were later tanslated into Chinese by Europeans. The Christian missionary William Muirhead (1822–1900), who lived in Shanghai during the late Qing period, published the gazetteer "Dili quanzhi", which was reprinted in Japan in 1859. Chinese maritime trade gazetteers mentioned a slew of different countries that came to trade in China, such as United States vessels docking at Canton in the "Yuehaiguanzhi" ('Gazetteer of the Maritime Customs of Guangdong') published in 1839 (reprinted in 1935). The Chinese language gazetteer "Haiguo tuzhi" ('Illustrated Gazetteer of the Sea Kingdoms') by Wei Yuan in 1844 (with material influenced by the "Sizhou zhi" of Lin Zexu) was printed in Japan two decades later 1854. This work was popular in Japan not for its geographical knowledge, but for its analysis of potential defensive military strategy in the face of European imperialism and the Qing's recent defeat in the First Opium War due to European artillery and gunboats. The printing of gazetteers was revived in 1956 under Mao Zedong and again in the 1980s, after the reforms of the Deng era to replace the people's communes with traditional townships. The difangzhi effort under Mao yielded little results (only 10 of the 250 designated counties ended up publishing a gazetteer), while the writing of difangzhi was interrupted during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), trumped by the village and family histories which were more appropriate for the theme of class struggle. A Li Baiyu of Shanxi forwarded a letter to the CCP Propaganda Department on May 1, 1979, which urged for the revival of difangzhi. Like Chinese gazetteers, there were national, provincial, and local prefecture Korean gazetteers which featured geographic information, demographic data, locations of bridges, schools, temples, tombs, fortresses, pavilions, and other landmarks, cultural customs, local products, resident clan names, and short biographies on well-known people. With additional material and correction of mistakes, the title of this gazetteer was revised in 1454 as the "Sejong Sillok chiriji" ('King Sejong's Treatise on Geography'), updated in 1531 under the title "Sinjŭng tongguk yŏji sŭngnam" ('Augmented Survey of the Geography of Korea'), The Joseon Koreans also created international gazetteers. The "Yojisongnam" gazetteer compiled from 1451–1500 provides a small description for 369 different foreign countries known to Joseon Korea in the 15th century. Japanese gazetteers preserved historical and legendary accounts of various regions. For example, the Nara era (710–794) provincial gazetteer "Harima no kuni fudoki" of Harima province provides a story of an alleged visit by Emperor Ōjin in the 3rd century while on an imperial hunting expedition. Local Japanese gazetteers could also be found in later periods such as the Edo period. Gazetteers were often composed by the request of wealthy patrons; for example, six scholars in the service of the daimyo of the Ikeda household published the "Biyō kokushi" gazetteer for several counties in 1737. World gazetteers were written by the Japanese in the 19th century, such as the "Kon'yo zushiki" ('Annotated Maps of the World') published by Mitsukuri Shōgo in 1845, the "Hakkō tsūshi" ('Comprehensive Gazetteer of the Entire World') by Mitsukuri Genpo in 1856, and the "Bankoku zushi" ('Illustrated Gazetteer of the Nations of the World'), which was written by an Englishman named Colton, translated by Sawa Ginjirō, and printed by Tezuka Ritsu in 1862. Despite the ambitious title, the work by Genpo only covered 'Yōroppa bu' (Section on Europe) while the planned section for Asia was not published. B.S. Baliga writes that the history of the gazetteer in Tamil Nadu can be traced back to the classical corpus of Sangam literature, dated 200 BC to 300 AD. Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, the vizier to Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire, wrote the Ain-e-Akbari, which included a gazetteer with valuable information on India's population in the 16th century.
Islamic world
The pre-modern Islamic world produced gazetteers. Cartographers of the Safavid dynasty of Iran made gazetteers of local areas.
List of gazetteers
Worldwide
Examples of electronic world gazetteers can be found at:
NGA GEOnet Names Server
* the GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names.
The World Gazetteer
* for a given city it gives the country, province, population (incorrect for some countries), coordinates, population rank among all towns within the country (incorrect for some countries)
* for each country it gives a map and table of provinces with area and population, a map of cities, an alphabetical table of cities, and a table of top cities – tables can be sorted by a column of choice
* for each province it gives an alphabetical table of cities.
* Contains 2,900,000 towns outside the US. For a given country and town it gives coordinates, altitude, weather forecast, and a map showing the position of the town with respect to topography and borders and bodies of water (not with respect to other towns); it also lists towns which are very nearby, within 3 km, with direction.
The Alexandria Digital Library at UCSB
* http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
* http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/clients/gazetteer/
** allows searching for any or a specified type of geographical feature within a rectangular area or the whole world, with a name equal to or containing the search term; returns coordinates, country and province with a small scale map.
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
* http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
* Similar to the previous one, except that not a rectangular area but a country can be specified, and that no map is produced.
EarthSearch
* http://www.earthsearch.net/
* Similar to the previous two, dictionary search, returns coordinates, satellite image and CIA World factbook country map.
The Fuzzy Gazetteer (European Commission/JRC Digital Map Archive)
* http://dma.jrc.it/services/fuzzyg
* Searches for place names worldwide and can handle variations in spelling, thereby making the searches more robust.
http://www.statoids.com/statoids.html – Hierarchical administrative subdivision (HASC) codes
Flags of the World, also of subnational entities, with some additional info
Antarctica
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer
USGS Geographic Names Information System: Antarctica
British Antarctic Territory Gazetteer
Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Antarctic Gazetteer
Asia
Karnataka Gazetteer
East Himalayan Gazetteer
* Compiled by Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK. An online gazetteer of 5,000 plant collecting localities in East Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling District, Bhutan and the Chumbi Valley (Tibet).
China Historical Gazetteer
Australia
Gazetteer of Australia
* Content from the Committee for Geographic Names in Australasia
* Hosted by Geoscience Australia
Europe
World War 2-era European Gazetteer
European Marine Gazetteer, a database of geographic names with information and maps of the locations.
Canada
Gazetteers of Canada (English-language)
* http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/search/advanced_findaplace_search_form?show=link
* http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php
* Columbia Gazetteer of North America – Canada from AllRefer.com
* Nova Scotia Gazetter
New Zealand
Index to Geographical Place Names & Street Names, hosted by Land Information New Zealand
Russia
Wörterbuch der russischen Gewässernamen (The Dictionary of Russian Hydronyms), in 6 volumes. Compiled by A. Kernd'l, R. Richhardt, and W. Eisold, under leadership of Max Vasmer. Wiesbaden, O. Harrassowitz, 1961
Russisches geographisches Namenbuch (The Book of Russian Geographic Names), founded by Max Vasmer. Compiled by Ingrid Coper et al. Wiesbaden, Atlas and Volumes 1-9. O. Harrassowitz, 1964–1981. The additional volume 11 appeared in 1988, ISBN 3-447-02851-3, and an additional atlas volume in 1989, ISBN 3-447-02923-4.
South Africa
South African Geographical Names System – Part of the South African Government Department for Arts and Culture
United Kingdom
National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)
National Street Gazetteer (NSG)
* Software provided by Aligned Assets
The OneScotland Gazetteer (OSG)
The Gazetteer for Scotland
* Maintained by the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland by Francis Groome (three editions, 1884, 1892 and 1901); earliest edition appears within The Gazetteer for Scotland
Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland by Rev. John Marius Wilson (1850s)
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales by Rev. John Marius Wilson (1870–1872)
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales by J.H.F. Brabner (19th C.)
United States
USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
* http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/
HomeTownLocator Gazetteer – US physical and cultural features, Census 2000 data
* http://www.HomeTownLocator.com/
The U.S. Gazetteer (1990 Census)
* http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
American FactFinder
* American FactFinder
* American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Data and Links
* Censo 2000 Puerto Rico
Columbia Gazetteer of North America
A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, with Numerous Illustrations, compiled by Rev. Elias Nason, M.A and revised and enlarged by George J. Varney, published 1890.
A Gazetteer of Texas, published 1902, hosted by the Portal to Texas History
A Gazetteer of Texas, by Henry Gannett, published 1904, hosted by the Portal to Texas History
Gazetteer of the State of New York by Horatio Gates Spafford, A. M., published by H. C. Southwick, Albany, N.Y. 1813
Gazetteer of the State of New York by J. H. French, published by R. Pearsall Smith, Syracuse, N.Y. 1860
Thematic gazetteers
Catalogue of Caravanserais/Khans
* A catalogue of georeferenced caravanserais/khans and other built facilities (bedestans/qaysariyyas, bridges, forts, lighthouses/beacons, markets/bazaars, hospices, etc.) associated with long-distance trade routes across Eurasia.
ShtetlSeeker and Town Locator search engine of the JewishGen website, based on Where Once We Walked and using the Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex system for approximate spellings of place names
* Searchable catalogue of Jewish-populated locales in 19th – mid-20th century Central and Eastern Europe; features hotlinked map coordinates.
VLIMAR: the VLIZ Marine Gazetteer
* A marine standard, relational list of geographic names, coupled with information and maps of the geographic location of these features.
See also
List of geography topics
Toponymy
Notes
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