Link: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html
Project Status: Complete
A digitization of Johann Georg Theodor Grässe’s Orbis Latinus; Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (1909), providing cross-referenced modern equivalents of Latin place names.
The site may be browsed by Latin place name (alphabetized). Also included are the 1909 edition’s Forward and Abbreviations list (in German; abbreviations also has English translation). For a more recent multi-volume print version of Orbis Latinus, see: Johann Georg Theodor Grässe Orbis Latinus; Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (1909) Grossausgabe, bearb. und hrsg. von Helmut Plechl unter Mitarbeit von Sophie-Charlotte Plechl, (Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1972).
Resource details:
Resource Type: Dictionary/Glossary
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Modern Language: English, German
Language of Modern Translation: English
Medieval content details:
Dates: 200 - 1600
Subject: Agriculture, Archaeology, Clergy, History, Monasticism, Religion - Institutional Church, Towns, Cities, Travel, Pilgrimage
Geopolitical Region: Africa, Asia, East and South, Europe, Middle East
Original Language: Latin