Regions of Medieval Europe

[elvain]

those of you who were members of old KoH community for long already know this my project of Regions of Medieval Europe
http://www.rome.webz.cz
http://www.rome.webz.cz/0RomE-pracovni.gif

Some time ago I've made a website for it and now I'm slowly updating it.

Right now it is only partialy done, but this thread is opened for coments and discusionon this site, if there is something you find wrong, don't hesitate to tell me and I will search for more sources (if possible) and edit it.

At the moment only few of total 25 maps are done:
Europe: (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Europe.htm)
Iberian peninsula (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Iberia.htm)
British Isles (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Britain.htm)
France (http://www.rome.webz.cz/France.htm)
Italy
The Balkans
Hungary and West Balkans
Holy Roman Empire
Poland And Bohemia
Scandinavia
The Baltic Lands
Russia (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Rus.htm)
Plains of South Russia

Africa: (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Afrika.htm)
Egypt (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Egypt.htm)
Nubia and Ethiopia
The Sahara (http://www.rome.webz.cz/sahara.htm)
Libya
Maghreb (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Maghreb.htm)

Asia: (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Asia.htm)
Anatolia
Caucasus
Central Asia
Iran (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Iran.htm)
Arabia (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Arabia.htm)
Fertile Crescent (http://www.rome.webz.cz/fertile%20crescent.htm)

[maks]

elvain,
concerning the region of Rus' with the question mark. You're looking for the word "Moksha", it's the river and ethnonym for the western mordva (mordvin people). The word "Mordva" would fit the region as well.

[NikeBG]

As far as I see, the Mordvan city on that map is named Мохши (Mohši (if the š is "sh", I'm not so sure about those symbols) or Mokshi). However, the Wiki (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%85%D1%88%D0%B8) says that it was named Mokshi when it was a part of the Golden Horde (after 1237) and before that it was called Нуриджан (Наручать, Наручадь) - Nuridzhan (Naruchat, Naruchad), today it's called Narovchat, but that doesn't matter much for the map. ;)

[maks]

As for the region, you can name it after the river Moksha, for this toponym seems to preceed the ethnonym. The river's only 2 kilometers from this Nurijan/Narovchat. But then again, unlike other nations Mordvins seem remarkably home-bound, living in the same place throughout centuries.

[Navatar]

I must say it's a amazing project Elvain!

I don't think I can grasp the sheer work it must be to do all this!
I can't wait to see it finished :D

[poster]

elvain, is all of this at an specific time or time range, or are u just generically saying medieval europe and doing a general 'overall' of how-where-when each region/province/etc, was and was named?
just curious.

[poster]

ah... i think i got it :) .

and this is going to be thrown into your eu2 mod right?

[Mathyas Rex]

Need any help on Hungary ???

[elvain]

sorry to be still bothering with this. I have moved forth and made also little update now.
Except from the first overview map you can now get to your desiredregion by clicking at the map (if the region is done already, and also I am slowly adding population estimates for larger regions (France, Egypt, Bohemia), as well as first of local rulers (so far partly in Anjou and Maine in France.
Just to give you a hint how this is planned to look (once, in few years when finnished - if anyone is interested in providing me good tables of local rulers and population estimates, I would be more thangrateful!).

but please note this is still in developmentand it will take dozens of months of work to finnish
look at Europe (http://www.rome.webz.cz/Europe.htm) and try France -> Anjou or Poland and Bohemia...
and in the end some texts should be added aswell