PlACES NAMES - GEOGRAPHY
Global Gazetteer: a worldwide index of cities and villages (nearly three million locations worldwide, including 80,000 in France). Is obtained, for the location of a searched place, a mute physical map (relief, seas, rivers, however, with borders); precise indications of longitude and latitude can refer to any map scale of the country.
Bing.com: A global index of cities and towns may be less complete, but easier to use than the previous.
To find the location of a village, use the JewishGen Gazetteer. It will give you the coordinates, even if you have any doubts about the spelling and thanks to Mapquest, you can even locate on a map. A version, the JewishGen Communities Database, restrict the search to places where there were Jewish Communities. |
EUROPE CENTRAL & ORIENTAL EUROPA
The Geographical Dictionary of Poland 1880-1914 (Polish) will serve you well to get more details, such as statistics on the number of Jews living in a particular village now in Poland but also in Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, former Polish territories.
The Global Zelder's Dictionary
1732-1754 (German) will serve you to find place name or any other name
or expression. The search engine works with any part of a name.
Sheets of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw on the Jewish communities of Poland include maps very well done.
A site, Ortlexica, (German) reconstitutes a dictionary of places of Austria-Hungary.
The very good wesite of the Museum for Jewish Bucovinian History and Culture published a interactive map.
TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS
Topographic maps of Poland Mapster, Ukraine on Valsenko, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia on Hiszi-map. Maps of Russia et Poland on Rodmurmana,
Topographic maps of Central and Eastern Europe on Mapster.