Abstract
The national revivals of the nineteenth century contributed to the nationalization of historiography in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Maps often illustrated history textbooks of the time and served as an argument for the territorial ambitions of the arising nations. Maps on military operations, boundary lines, medieval statehood or ethnography aimed to prove that a nation had occupied a certain territory for centuries; they functioned as a tool for the legitimation of historical claims. In contrast to national topographic map series, maps printed in books are always related to the surrounding narrative. The contextualization of both text and cartographic representation helps us to understand the function of these maps within a national narrative. Another way to capture the intention of the map is to embed it into the geographic reality. Once maps have been digitized and georeferenced, their projection within a GIS can offer clues about their accuracy. Ultimately, the cartographic representation in relation to the real world gives researchers an analysis tool to resituate maps stating an argument about a discourse [Harley (Cartographica 26(2): 1–20, 1989)] within a measurable framework. This method may provide new evidence about the intention of the author’s statement.
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For Hungarian ethnic mapping, see Horváth (2010: 187–199).
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For the development of historical atlases in Germany, Austria, England and the USA during the period from 1860 to 1960, see Schraut (2011).
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For example: projects like IPUMS by the Minnesota Population Center (see https://www.ipums.org/, last accessed: 16 Jan 2017) or MOSAIC (see http://www.censusmosaic.org/, last accessed: 16 Jan 2017).
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https://www.regensburger-katalog.de/TouchPoint/start.do?View=ubrwios&Language=de&SearchProfile=GeoPortOst. Last accessed: 23 Jun 2017.
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http://www.bib-bvb.de/web/b3kat/open-data. Last accessed: 8 Dec 2016.
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The maps from 1922 were created by Pál Teleki, who died in 1941, which is why they are free of copyright.
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http://www.bl.uk/georeferencer/georeferencingdata.html. Last accessed: 12 Dec 2016.
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http://maps.nls.uk/projects/georeferencer/. Last accessed: 12 Dec 2016.
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http://www.staremapy.cz/. Last accessed: 12 Dec 2016.
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http://www.library.leiden.edu/special-collections/special/maps-in-the-crowd-eng.html. Last accessed: 12 Dec 2016.
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http://help.georeferencer.com/metadata. Last accessed: 12 Dec 2016.
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For Fig. 1, see http://geoportost.ios-regensburg.de/map/BV042760754, for Fig. 2, see http://geoportost.ios-regensburg.de/map/BV042760767. Both last accessed: 12 Jan 2017.
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http://geoportost.ios-regensburg.de/map/BV042512931. Last accessed: 13 Jan 2017.
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For Fig. 5, see http://geoportost.georeferencer.com/id/BV042512931/visualize. Last accessed: 13 Jan 2017.
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For Fig. 6, see http://geoportost.georeferencer.com/id/BV042512931/accuracy. Last accessed: 13 Jan 2017.
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Tegeler, T. (2018). Discovering Hidden Maps: Cartographic Representations as Arguments for Historical Narratives. In: Altić, M., Demhardt, I., Vervust, S. (eds) Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61515-8_18
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