The first cartographic atlas of the Basque Country
- By Ramón Oleaga and Jose Mari Esparza, the Imago Vasconiae collection contains 300 maps that can be accessed on the Internet. The authors have created an indispensable tool to illustrate the evolution of the history of the Basque Country and "have original material for research".
Every country has its own cartographic atlas, and now also Basque Country. Imago Vasconiae was introduced on Thursday at Laboral Kutxa’s headquarters in Bilbao. Basque Country: work atlas of historical cartography.
What was presented in Bilbao is not just any book, nor a "common work": "A scientific and cultural infrastructure"
Written by the writer José Mari Esparza and the researcher Ramón Oleaga, and edited with the help of the editorial Txalaparta and thanks to the funding of Laboral Kutxa, the atlas collects 300 maps of the history of Euskal Herria, which in addition to representing the territory "represents us", the authors explain.
Because what is presented in Bilbao is not any book, nor "a current work", as explained in his presentation by the professor of the UPV/EHU Joseba Agirreazkuenaga, author of the prologue: "A scientific and cultural infrastructure", said the historian. Thus, the authors have made available original material for research through their experience in the mapping environment and their "critical knowledge".
Imago Vasconiae is the result of many years and hours of work, a result of the passion of both authors for cartography. They have analyzed library catalogues, museum collections and other publications, and have made a detailed selection between 800 plans and the corpus of the map. Thus, each map provides its explanation, authorship, date and historical context in four languages: Basque, Spanish, French and English.
"A work that encompasses the Basque Country as a whole was missing"
Esparza and Oleaga are proud that the first cartographic atlas of a town is not presented every day. For Oleaga it was something "necessary": "In the field of historical cartography, provisional catalogs have been published in our country, as explained by the researcher, but one piece that encompasses the Basque Country as a whole was missing". Esparza, meanwhile, explains that the atlas will help "understand the evolution of Vasconia in the Histo".
Maps of all kinds appear on the atlas, from the so-called "Map of the Goat", made in stone 13.660 years ago and the oldest in Western Europe, where it was found in 1993, to the present day. Among them are the geological maps, the world map in which the word "Wasconia" appears, the map of the peoples of Europe and the maps on the understanding of the Basque Country, as the one published by ARGIA in 2017 in the framework of the "Egia Model".
The Atlas has been edited on paper, with a bag of 440 pages and an edition of 1,000 copies, each at 250 euros. However, those who want to check the maps can do so via the web www.imagovasconiae.eus.
A group of archaeologists from the University of Berkeley, California, USA. That is, men didn't launch the lances to hunt mammoths and other great mammals. That was the most widespread hypothesis so far, the technique we've seen in movies, video games ...
But the study, published... [+]
Zamora, late 10th century. On the banks of the Douro River and outside the city walls the church of Santiago de los Caballeros was built. The inside capitals of the church depict varied scenes with sexual content: an orgy, a naked woman holding the penis of a man… in the... [+]
Born 7 November 1924. A group of anarchists broke into Bera this morning to protest against the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and to begin the revolution in the Spanish state.
Last October, the composition of the Central Board was announced between the displaced from Spain... [+]
Urriaren 26an Iruña-Veleia Argitu, ez suntsitu jardunaldian Zenbat esku daude Iruña-Veleian aurkitutako ostraken testuetan? ponentzia aurkeztu zuen Joseba Lizeagak
A group of interdisciplinary researchers from the Free University of Berlin and the Zuse Institute have developed a complex mathematical model to better understand how Romanization spread in North Africa.
According to a study published in the journal Plos One, the model has... [+]
Washington (EE.UU. ), 1807. The US Constitution banned transatlantic slave trade. This does not mean that slavery has been abolished, but that the main source of the slaves has been interrupted. Thus, slave women became the only way to “produce” new slaves.
So in 1845, in... [+]
On the pretext of leaving Hezbollah out of play, Israel has attacked Lebanon, which has been rejected. As a result, small Switzerland in the Middle East has been placed in the media spotlight, but remains an unknown country. In ancient times it was the origin of an important... [+]
