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2307-289X
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Europe’s “eastward enlargement” 300 years ago, after the dramatic turning point at the gates of Vienna in 1683, also led to a (re)discovery of the Danube and Carpathian regions as well as of Southeast Europe: due to earlier dynastic particularities, long trade restrictions and more than 150 years of Turkish governmental supremacy after the 1526 Battle of Mohács, geographical and natural science knowledge about Eastern and Southeast Europe had largely been lost in the West. Prince Eugene, for instance, early recognized the value of precise maps as well as geographical, historical and sociocultural information and became instrumental in the establishment of the k. k. Ingenieur-Akademie (imperial-royal engineer academy) in 1717. In the 18th and 19th centuries the graduates of the academy and its successor organizations created excellent cartographic and (military) geographical, historical and sociocultural products – especially the official geodetic surveys as well as the real property cadaster and land register were technical and socio-economic feats. Today, the eastward enlargement of the European Union presents us with similar challenges. Due to this “return of geography and history to the current thinking in Europe” (Emil Brix), considerations how legal certainty in land ownership in Southern Europe can be improved have become topical again. One such approach is the creation of harmonized geoinformation as well as basic and topographic maps in the area of the European Union.
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Der Donauraum, Wien : Böhlau, 1956, 57(2017), 3/4, Seite 111-130, 2307-289X
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volume:57
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year:2017
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number:3/4
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pages:111-130
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fasching, Gerhard Leonhard, 1940 - Die kartographische Erschließung des östlichen Europas 2019
Language:
German
DOI:
10.7767/dedo.2017.57.3-4.111
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Fasching, Gerhard Leonhard 1940-
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