Suggested citation format:
Ciolek, T. Matthew (ed.). 1999 - present. Georeferenced historical transport/travel/communication routes and nodes - Africa. OWTRAD Dromographic Digital Data Archives (ODDDA). Old World Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project. Canberra: www.ciolek.com - Asia Pacific Research Online.
www.ciolek.com/OWTRAD/DATA/oddda.html

OWTRAD Dromographic Digital Data Archives
(ODDDA)
Georeferenced historical transport/travel/communication
routes and nodes - Africa

edited by

Dr T. Matthew Ciolek,

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
tmciolek@ciolek.com
http://www.ciolek.com/PEOPLE/ciolek-tm.html

Document created: 7 Jul 1999. Last updated: 29 Oct 2006

This document catalogs and archives data sets about historical transport/travel/communication routes and nodes. These geo- and chrono-referenced data have been constructed as a part of the Old World Trade Routes (OWTRAD) project.

NOTE: Researchers wishing to publish at this address their own data sets
describing communication and transport networks world-wide are warmly invited to contact the site's editor.

|| OWTRAD Home Page || Notation System || Gazetteer || Catalogue of Caravanserais/Khans || Trade Routes' Glossary || Sources and Bibliography || ODDDA Home Page ||
Series 1 - Routes:
|| Africa || Asia & the Middle East || Europe || Timeline ||
Series 2 - Significant Nodes:
|| Old World ||

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Individual OWTRAD data sets (geospatial and historical description of NODES and connecting them travel ROUTES) which are listed below follow exact specifications of the OWTRAD Notation System, a tool for digitization of information extracted from sources containing text and/or graphics.

Please also note that the filenames below (e.g.'tmcILa0600.html', or 'tmcDZm0500.html') observe the following convention:

    Africa

  1. North-West Africa, 500-1800 CE, trade routes tmcDZm0500.html North-West Africa, 500-1800 CE, trade routes
    [28 routes' segments; Src: Oliver 2000; georeferenced]
  2. Mediterranean countries, 200 CE, trade routes tmcEGm0200.html Mediterranean countries, 200 CE, trade routes
    [45 routes' segments; Src: Stone (ed.) 1989; georeferenced]
  3. North Africa, 1300-1900 CE, pilgrimage routes tmcDZm1300a.html North Africa, 1300-1900 CE, pilgrimage routes
    [135 routes' segments; Src: al-Naqar 1972; georeferenced]
  4. North Africa, 1300-1900 CE, trade routes tmcDZm1300b.html North Africa, 1300-1900 CE, trade routes
    [33 routes' segments; Src: al-Naqar 1972; georeferenced]
  5. Morocco, 200-1930 CE, caravan routes tmcMAm1500.html Morocco, 200-1930 CE, caravan routes
    [20 routes' segments; Src: de Rouvray 2001; georeferenced]
  6. Tanzania, 1700-1890 CE, trade route tmcTZm1700.html Tanzania, 1700-1890 CE, trade route
    [6 routes' segments; Src: United Republic of Tanzania 2006; georeferenced; also available in Google Earth/KML format] [NEWEST DATASET, published Oct 2006]

  7. [further data sets will be published here ...]

Maintainer: Dr T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@ciolek.com)

Copyright (c) 1999 - present by T. Matthew Ciolek. Creative Commons License OWTRAD materials and data sets may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License. Please direct comments, questions or requests about this license policy to tmciolek@ciolek.com.