Navigating through historic Danube maps: a look at the fluvial islets between Giurgiu and Oltenita towns

This paper presents a cartographical retrospective of the most relevant maps for the Danube River, focusing on the fluvial islets. The study area corresponds to the Giurgiu-Oltenita sector, one of the Danube's sectors displaying a relative stability regarding the number of such geomorphologica...

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Main Author: Andreea-Florentina Marin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2017-04-01
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Online Access:http://www.geodinamic.ro/assets/geo-patterns/volumes/v2.1_13-17.pdf
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description This paper presents a cartographical retrospective of the most relevant maps for the Danube River, focusing on the fluvial islets. The study area corresponds to the Giurgiu-Oltenita sector, one of the Danube's sectors displaying a relative stability regarding the number of such geomorphological landforms. If by the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries the Danube River was drawn as a straight, wavy or curly lines, after this period the maps were made more detailed and precise, also depicting its fluvial islets and marshes. At the same time, information about the navigation, vegetation, topography and bathymetry is starting to be collected and mentioned. All these maps and aerial/satellite images provide an excellent record of historical locations and configuration of the Danube course and its islets.
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spelling doaj.art-6c9f60ec3b1d4174aa8b27d7ad9408212022-12-21T21:05:22ZengUniversity of BucharestGeoPatterns2501-78372501-78372017-04-01211317Navigating through historic Danube maps: a look at the fluvial islets between Giurgiu and Oltenita townsAndreea-Florentina Marin0University of BucharestThis paper presents a cartographical retrospective of the most relevant maps for the Danube River, focusing on the fluvial islets. The study area corresponds to the Giurgiu-Oltenita sector, one of the Danube's sectors displaying a relative stability regarding the number of such geomorphological landforms. If by the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries the Danube River was drawn as a straight, wavy or curly lines, after this period the maps were made more detailed and precise, also depicting its fluvial islets and marshes. At the same time, information about the navigation, vegetation, topography and bathymetry is starting to be collected and mentioned. All these maps and aerial/satellite images provide an excellent record of historical locations and configuration of the Danube course and its islets.http://www.geodinamic.ro/assets/geo-patterns/volumes/v2.1_13-17.pdfhistorical cartographyold mapsfluvial isletsDanube River
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Navigating through historic Danube maps: a look at the fluvial islets between Giurgiu and Oltenita towns
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historical cartography
old maps
fluvial islets
Danube River
title Navigating through historic Danube maps: a look at the fluvial islets between Giurgiu and Oltenita towns
title_full Navigating through historic Danube maps: a look at the fluvial islets between Giurgiu and Oltenita towns
title_fullStr Navigating through historic Danube maps: a look at the fluvial islets between Giurgiu and Oltenita towns
title_full_unstemmed Navigating through historic Danube maps: a look at the fluvial islets between Giurgiu and Oltenita towns
title_short Navigating through historic Danube maps: a look at the fluvial islets between Giurgiu and Oltenita towns
title_sort navigating through historic danube maps a look at the fluvial islets between giurgiu and oltenita towns
topic historical cartography
old maps
fluvial islets
Danube River
url http://www.geodinamic.ro/assets/geo-patterns/volumes/v2.1_13-17.pdf
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