The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps
The town of Rasa was mentioned in the tenth-century work De administrando imperio by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The significance of this town in the Middle Ages is indicated by the fact that this toponym appears on old maps created by the greatest European cartographers from the fifteenth to n...
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| author | Mirko Grčić Ljiljana Grčić Mikica Sibinović |
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| description | The town of Rasa was mentioned in the tenth-century work De administrando imperio by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The significance of this town in the Middle Ages is indicated by the fact that this toponym appears on old maps created by the greatest European cartographers from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. Based on cartographic and historical geographical sources, this paper considers various perceptions and texts connecting the town of Rasa with today’s town of Ražanj or with the medieval Serbian capital Ras. The subject treated is historical social geography. Five types of sources were used for the historical geography of the Balkans: old maps, chronicles, geographical nomenclature, archeological findings, and ethnographic findings. Based on written sources, geographical names, and geographical logic, the authors provide their own conclusions about the geographical position of the town of Rasa. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-67ee0a134a14456e9f79d698dc1c57fd2022-12-22T04:18:19ZengZRC SAZU, Založba ZRCActa Geographica Slovenica1581-66131581-83142018-01-0158139–4739–4710.3986/AGS.19491582The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval mapsMirko Grčić0Ljiljana Grčić1Mikica Sibinović2PhD, University Professor, Faculty of Geography at Belgrade UniversityPhD candidate, Faculty of Geography at Belgrade UniversityPhD, assistant professor, Faculty of Geography at Belgrade UniversityThe town of Rasa was mentioned in the tenth-century work De administrando imperio by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The significance of this town in the Middle Ages is indicated by the fact that this toponym appears on old maps created by the greatest European cartographers from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. Based on cartographic and historical geographical sources, this paper considers various perceptions and texts connecting the town of Rasa with today’s town of Ražanj or with the medieval Serbian capital Ras. The subject treated is historical social geography. Five types of sources were used for the historical geography of the Balkans: old maps, chronicles, geographical nomenclature, archeological findings, and ethnographic findings. Based on written sources, geographical names, and geographical logic, the authors provide their own conclusions about the geographical position of the town of Rasa.https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/ags/article/view/1949geographyold mapsgeographical namesrasarasserbia |
| spellingShingle | Mirko Grčić Ljiljana Grčić Mikica Sibinović The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps Acta Geographica Slovenica geography old maps geographical names rasa ras serbia |
| title | The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps |
| title_full | The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps |
| title_fullStr | The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps |
| title_full_unstemmed | The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps |
| title_short | The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps |
| title_sort | geographical position of the town of rasa based on porphyrogenitus and medieval maps |
| topic | geography old maps geographical names rasa ras serbia |
| url | https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/ags/article/view/1949 |
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