The geographical position of the town of rasa based on porphyrogenitus and medieval maps
Abstract
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 Razanj 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.
Keywords:
geography / old maps / geographical names / Rasa / Ras / SerbiaSource:
Acta Geographica Slovenica - Geografski zbornik, 2018, 58, 1, 39-47Publisher:
- Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut Antona Melika ZRC SAZU
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DOI: 10.3986/AGS.1949
ISSN: 1581-6613
WoS: 000415133800003
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85030116210
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Geografski fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Grčić, Mirko AU - Grčić, Ljiljana AU - Sibinović, Mikica PY - 2018 UR - https://gery.gef.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/952 AB - 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 Razanj 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. PB - Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut Antona Melika ZRC SAZU T2 - Acta Geographica Slovenica - Geografski zbornik T1 - The geographical position of the town of rasa based on porphyrogenitus and medieval maps VL - 58 IS - 1 SP - 39 EP - 47 DO - 10.3986/AGS.1949 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_952 ER -
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Grčić, M., Grčić, L.,& Sibinović, M.. (2018). The geographical position of the town of rasa based on porphyrogenitus and medieval maps. in Acta Geographica Slovenica - Geografski zbornik Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut Antona Melika ZRC SAZU., 58(1), 39-47. https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.1949 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_952
Grčić M, Grčić L, Sibinović M. The geographical position of the town of rasa based on porphyrogenitus and medieval maps. in Acta Geographica Slovenica - Geografski zbornik. 2018;58(1):39-47. doi:10.3986/AGS.1949 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_952 .
Grčić, Mirko, Grčić, Ljiljana, Sibinović, Mikica, "The geographical position of the town of rasa based on porphyrogenitus and medieval maps" in Acta Geographica Slovenica - Geografski zbornik, 58, no. 1 (2018):39-47, https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.1949 ., https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_952 .