Journal of Maps

Journal of Maps

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Fig. 1. Workflow of the meta-analysis of historical and ethno-linguistic maps of Western Tigray
Fig. 2. Extract of an early map of the Abyssinian Empire (Manesson-Mallet 1683), without internal borders, but displaying the territorial control of “Tigre”, which extends west of the Tekeze River. There is a quite good relative position of the hydrography. The size of lettering tends to indicate hierarchy in territorial control. This and all other map extracts are conformably oriented with north up. Map credit: Illinois Library Digital Collections.
Fig. 3. Extract of Guillaume de L’Isle’s (1707) map with southern borders of “Royaume de Tigre” that come close to Chelga (the current Aykel), Gondar and Enfraz. “Olcait” explicitly included with Tigré. The Tekeze River does not constitute a border. We find this extent of Tigray on maps throughout the 18th century (de L'Isle 1707, Bowen 1747, de Vaugondy 1749, Bonne 1782, Pitteri 1784, Dunn 1794, Cassini 1798, Cary 1804). This map extract is approx. 450 km wide, just like those of Figs. 4 and 5. All display boundaries of political control, which may locally be different from lines of language transition. Map credit: de L'Isle (1707), World Digital Library.
Fig. 4. On Thomson’s map (1817), the border between Tigray (yellow) and Dembea/Gondar (magenta) runs at the southern edge of the main reliefs of the Semien mountains – note the Devarek (Debark) salient on the Gondarine plateau in contrast to the surrounding rugged “Samen” terrain , part of Tigray. Walkayt (in orange colour) appears as independent both from Gondar and from Tigray. Similar boundary courses are also displayed on most other maps prepared in that period (Salt 1814, Brué 1828, Arrowsmith 1832, Brué 1834, Weiland 1841, Arrowsmith 1844, Radefeld 1844, Andriveau-Goujon 1850). Map credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
Fig. 5. Between 1946 and 1991, the border between Begemder and Tigray was located on the Tekeze River, as displayed on atlas maps by Anon. (1956) (shown) and others in the same period (Anon. 1952, Grosvenor and Darley 1963, Anon. 1967). Earlier on, that course of the border had made a relatively short appearance in the time series, around the turn of the 20th Century (Habenicht 1891, Johnston 1893, De Chaurand 1894, Stieler and Lueddecke 1894, Brockhaus 1895, Anon. 1896, Rossetti 1907, Petri and Shokalskago 1909). Map credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

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Administrative and ethno-linguistic boundaries of Western Tigray (Ethiopia) since 1683

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Journal of Maps publishes maps and spatial diagrams on social and physical processes that take place on a geographical scale.

  • Journal of Maps (JoM) is a fully open access, inter-disciplinary journal for researchers to publish maps and spatial diagrams across the physical and social sciences.
  • Journal of Maps research examines social and physical processes that take place on a geographical scale, using maps or spatial diagrams to advance understanding.
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