Locations

Locations may be tagged in various contexts in the description of the text-bearing object: in <origPlace>, <provenance> (for find-place or modern locations). This page describes the issues that all of these locations share, rather than duplicating them in each section.

TEI definition: place
TEI definition: placeName
TEI definition: geogName

Placenames and geognames can be identified in several different ways. One way is with a <ref> which points to the an internal gazetteer. Another option is to link to an external database (Pleiades, Geonames).

For specific types of placenames see the following subsections:

<origPlace ref="origPlace.xml#p003">
<seg xml:lang="ru">Херсон</seg>
<seg xml:lang="en">Chersonesos</seg>
</origPlace>

<geogName type="modernCountry" key="LY">Libya</geogName>

<placeName
  type="ancientFindspot"
  ref="http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373732"
  key="db911">Apollonia</placeName>

<placeName
type="modernFindspot"
ref="http://sws.geonames.org/81584">Marsa Suza</placeName>

Responsibility for this section

Gabriel Bodard, author
Simona Stoyanova, author

Date: 2013-05-02