The Helonaki Deep Dive 2.13

Locations in the Vostitsa Landscape

Release date: May 25, 2023

Map of northern Peloponnese with outline of Venetian Vostitsa villas (1700), and locations for 1463 Vostitsa, 1463 Kalavryta, and 1910 Vostitsa

Description:

In this episode, we explore differences in the landscape, specifically around locations in the three datasets (1463, 1700, and 1907) by comparing them with each other and with a dataset of 50 random points. The analyses show trends in the landscape of locations through time.

Show Links:

Look at the accompanying maps and images on the companion page for this episode.

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  • Travels in the Morea, Albania, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire (Pouqueville, 1813 English translation) Google Books
  • The shifting tides of empires: Using GIS to contextualize population change within the landscape of seventeenth to nineteenth-century Mani, Greece (Seifried, 2015) International Journal of Historical Archaeology
  • War and settlement desertion in the Morea, 1685-1830 (Wagstaff, 1978) JSTOR
  • Early modern Greece: liquid landscapes and fluid populations (Forbes, 2007) JSTOR

Credits:

Theme music by Dan-O

Additional sounds from Zapsplat

The Helonaki Deep Dive is written and produced by Jen Glaubius of The Helonaki