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Historical Dictionary of States / Lexikon der historischen Staatennamen : States and State-like Communities from Their Origins to the Present / Staaten und staatsähnliche Gemeinwesen von den Ursprüngen bis zur Gegenwart / Peter Truhart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Truhart, Peter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Dictionaries.
- History.
- Political geography--Dictionaries.
- Political geography.
- Historical geography--Dictionaries.
- Historical geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (906 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : K. G. Saur, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Here is the first comprehensive and systematically ordered global survey of states in the world. Starting in the fourth millennium in Mesopotamia and Egypt and continuing to mediaeval and modern times, about 5,000 years of history are covered, presenting theocratic states ... military monarchies ... ancient city-states ... feudal states ... tribal kingdoms in Africa ... and even nomadic organizations with changing territorial bases.Each entry includes information on the particular state's designation and its dependencies, its period of existence, characteristics of its political constitution, the title of its head of state, its capital(s), and major events in its history. References to previous and subsequent designations are also provided.Structured on historical-geographical principles, the work is divided into two chronological sections: Antiquity and Mediaeval and Modern Times (A.D. 400 to date). An alphabetical index of state names provides an additional point of entry.Offering quick access to basic information about the complex development of universal political geography, the Historical Dictionary of States helps to explain the process of state formation and recalls past political orders and vanished empires.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS / INHALT
- Preface / Vorwort
- SYSTEMATIC SURVEY / SYSTEMATISCHER ÜBERBLICK
- ABBREVATIONS / ABKÜRZUNGEN
- TRANSCRIPTIONS / UMSCHRIFTEN
- Introduction / Einleitung
- STATES / STAATEN
- Teil 1.
- Teil 2.
- Teil 3.
- Teil 4.
- Teil 5.
- Teil 6.
- APPENDIX
- Bibliography / Schrifttum
- Alphabetical Index / Alphabetisches Register
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110963960
- 3110963965
- OCLC:
- 979755339
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