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ORB Online Encyclopedia Low Countries Historical Geography of Brabant Section Editor: K. A. W. H. Leenders Preliminary Outline for this Section: ORB Encyclopedia--Original Essays "Lost peatlands in the Low Countries" "Buckwheat in Historical Perspective" "Die Brabanter moorkanaele" Note: This text is in German. For English abstract, see "Peat Canals" Van Turnhoutervoorde tot Strienemonde. Ontginnings- en nederzettingsgeschiedenis van het noordwesten van het Maas - Schelde - Demergebied, 400 - 1350. Een poging tot synthese.. English Summary. Primary Sources--Literature, chronicles, other texts Bibliographies Kevin Stilley prepared a nice bibliography about Interpreting Landscapes Resources for Teaching Historical Geography, ed. K. Leenders Look also at the beginning site of the Ecomuseum en Archive van de Brickfactories at Boom Floris Prims wrote a lot about the Antwerp polders (nowadays that is the district of the Port of Antwerp) De Peel was an big peatcovered region on the eastern border of North-Brabant. A small part of it is still there. This site gives historical information about the Peel. A good entrance to the world of historical geography. Hastings 1066 For who wants to know exactly where the Normans landed prior to the Battle of Hastings. The Virtual Geography Department has prepared a module for any Virtual Geography Department Group desiring to use this technology exercise as an introduction to using the Internet. It has a good list of hist-geo-sites. ArchWEB is a project initiated by several Dutch archaeological organizations to provide an archaeological information service on the Internet. ArchWEB will move to a new address early in 2000. Reports about the archaeological excavations at Oss Industriële archeologie in België. Industrial archaeology in Belgium. Works of art Maps Map of Region Old Maps of Brabant, the duchy and some parts of it. l Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. Map History / History of Cartography , center of a lot of useful links! Links to museums and libraries Breda Entry to archives of the city of Breda in the province Noord-Brabant, and from here further... Noord-Brabant Entry to archives etc in the Dutch province Noord-Brabant. (Genealogical origin). The Streetnames of Antwerp contain a lot of history! The history of Waals-Brabant /Brabant-Wallon now has its own site. Centers for medieval studies Professional organizations and journals The Dutch Historical-Geographical Journal publishes in the Dutch language articles (with summaries in English) and signalizes literature about the historical geography, mostly of the Low Countries and surrounding regions. Programs and Abstracts, from the 1998 conference "Explorations in Historical Geography: in Honour of Dr. Alan R. H. Baker" held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. The 19th Session of the Permanent European Conference for the study of the Rural Landscape will be held at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, September 2000. The historical geographers of Bonn university have now also a nice site. You can find here a extensive bibliography of studies about Germany and some bordering countries. H-RURAL encourages scholarly discussion of rural studies and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids. Many links to historical journals are at THE HISTORY JOURNALS NEWS ICOMOS is an international organization of professionals dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY COLLECTION Gives lists of geographical (sometimes hist-geo) publications.

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