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Žemaitijos vardas senuosiuose žemėlapiuose: formos ir transformacijos | Žemaitija on Ancient Maps: Forms and Transformations of its Name
Volume 39 (2019): The Unknown Land of Žemaitija: The 13th to the 18th Centuries = Žemaitija – nežinoma žemė: XIII–XVIII amžiai, pp. 25–48
Laima Bucevičiūtė ORCID icon link to view author Laima Bucevičiūtė details  

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https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v39i0.2115
Pub. online: 18 December 2019      Type: Article      Open accessOpen Access

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18 December 2019

Abstract

The first written mention in historical sources of the name of Žemaitija (or Samogitia), the west Lithuanian region, is well-known. In 1219, the Hypatian Codex described how Žemaitijan dukes, along with Lithuanian dukes, made peace with Volhynia. Much less is known about the emergence of the name of Žemaitija on ancient maps, despite the fact that old cartography often provides the first records of various geographical, socio-cultural and socio-economic phenomena. The article not only tries to trace the first appearance of the name Samogitia on maps, but also discusses its various forms and transformations, explaining the motives behind choices of particular forms of the name. The author examines nearly all the maps created before the early 19th century as cartographic sources. For the classification of this volume of material, she uses the concept of the three-stage cartographic depiction of Lithuania proposed by Vaclovas Chomskis. More than 200 maps of different scales and representing different areas, including Lithuania, Lithuania and neighbouring countries, Lithuania and Poland, Europe, Prussia, etc, were researched in order to track the use of different names for Žemaitija.

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Žemaitija West Lithuania ancient maps history of cartography geographical concepts

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