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The Sikhs – religion and nation. Chosen political and social determinants of functioning
The article attempts to estimate the influence of the geographical and political conditions on the transformation of a Sikhs community after the decolonisation of India in 1947.
Marek Barwiński, Łukasz Musiaka
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18–19. századi magyar India-utazók emlékezete
The present study provides a comprehensive overview of the 18th–19th century Hungarian or Hungary-related India travellers. In this context, relying upon the author’s subjective value judgement, individuals who visited India and South Asia, respectively,
Zagyi, Nándor
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Historical physical geography is a discipline that investigates the changes in various natural factors within geographical environments during historical human periods. The establishment of modern Chinese historical geography was profoundly influenced by
Li Dahai
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Historical towns embody the origins and continuity of urban civilization, preserving distinctive spatial fabrics, cultural lineages, and latent economic value within contemporary metropolitan systems.
Qi Hu, Shuang Li
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In the context of global modernization, both the United States and China faced major challenges in rural social development. In the early twentieth century, the American federal government launched the Country Life Movement, during which Christianity ...
Zheyu Shi, Wei Duan
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Kul'turno-landshaftnoe rajonirovanie Severo-Zapada Rossii [Cultural and landscape zoning in the North- West Russia] [PDF]
This research was conducted in the framework of cultural geography — a relatively recent field of geography. This article considers the problems of geographical study of cultural landscapes of the North-West Russia, which includes Saint Petersburg, the ...
Manakov Andrei, Andreev Alexander
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A történeti személynévföldrajz mint a nyelvföldrajz egyik kutatási területe I.* [PDF]
The geography of historical personal names as a research area of Geolinguistics I. Name geographic methods in name studies Spatial distribution of proper names – similarly to that of common nouns – is a natural consequence of language change ...
N. Fodor, János
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Wine – The Favourite Beverage of Serbian Medieval Rulers and Nobility
Wine, as the most noble and beloved drink of the Middle Ages, was primarily consumed in the courts of Serbian medieval rulers and nobility. During the early decades of the 14th century, Serbian rulers and nobles imported wine from the coastal cities of
Marina Štetić
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The origin of human groups on earth, as well as their movement, is one of the many themes addressed in Christian Grataloup's World Historical Atlas. In this publication we explore some of these maps and their commentaries, instigating a geographical ...
Confins
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Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France [PDF]
This essay considers the politics and patronage of geography in early-modern France. It examines how the Paris Academy of Sciences, widely acknowledged as the 18th century’s pre-eminent scientific society, came to recognise geography as an independent ...
Heffernan, Michael
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