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Title: Germany Provincial Capitals, 1850, German Historical GIS

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2007
  • Coverage: 1850

Publishers

  • HGIS Germany

Summary

The points represent the capitals of 11 provinces located in the Kingdom of Prussia and in the Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1850, which were then members of the German Confederation (Deutscher Bund). The polygons and state capitals of 'core Germany 1820' are available as separate data sets on this server.

Subjects

  • Location
  • Germany
  • German Confederation
  • Central Europe
  • Poland
  • Kaliningrad Oblast
  • Political Divisions
  • sovereign states
  • Capitals (Cities)
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (6.867968, 20.5, 54.834083, 49.809434)
  • Geometry: BBOX (6.867968, 20.5, 54.834083, 49.809434)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

HGIS Germany (Andreas Kunz, Leonhard Dietze), IEG-Maps / Berlin Data Pool (Andreas Kunz, Robert Moeschl), Institut fur Europaische Geschichte (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), Fachhochschule Mainz (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany). Germany Provincial Capitals, 1850, German Historical GIS. HGIS Germany. Point data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-ghgis1850provincecaps

Format

Shapefile