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Dubious placement of Frankfurt on the included map.

by bb101 10y ago

BorisVSchmid 10y ago
That is a valid Frankfurt :-) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_(Oder) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_(Oder) Ran into a lot of examples like that when merging two existing georeferenced datasets of plague outbreaks in Europe. Had to do quite some manual checking, and made good use of the damerau-levenshtein distance between two strings to recognize alternative spellings. end-result here: https://figshare.com/articles/plague_outbreaks_in_medieval_Europe/1317283 https://figshare.com/articles/plague_outbreaks_in_medieval_E...
Maultasche 10y ago
In Germany, it's common to have cities in different parts of Germany with the same name. In such cases, one usually puts a nearby geographic feature (usually a river) or region next to the name of the city. In this particular case, it's Frankfurt (Main) vs Frankfurt (Oder). I'm a little puzzled as to the inclusion of Frankfurt (Oder) on the map. It was a city of decent size in the Middle Ages, but nowhere near the importance of any of the other cities displayed on the map.
- BorisVSchmid 10y ago
  It basically comes down to data availability, and some historian digging through the available archives. For example, Givry is a tiny place somewhere in France, but for which by happenstance the parish registers at the time of the Black Death survived. They record the daily number of deaths, which end abruptly when presumably the priest died after recording ~620 deaths since the beginning of the epidemic in that town. The town's population is estimated at around 1170 people, based on the death rate in the earlier months, leading to a lower end estimate of 53% mortality (if the death of the priest was also the end of the epidemic). (from page 306 of http://www.persee.fr/doc/bec_0373-6237_1939_num_100_1_449196) [0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0] ;; jul. . approximate start of epidemic somewhere during jul. [0 4 4 1 0 2 1 7 5 3 1 1 4 5 3 3 4 1 5 2 2 4 3 6 2 2 2 6 3 8 4 6 10] ;; aug. [6 9 8 8 4 6 15 3 11 24 7 10 15 10 14 11 17 8 6 3 17 6 11 16 7 16 12 5 10 7] ;; sept [7 6 7 7 8 7 6 6 9 4 7 9 3 14 5 5 4 8 6 7 3 2 5 4 4 2 3 1 3 0 6] ;; oct [3 4 3 4 0 2 1 0 4 3 2 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 3] ;; nov, records end with the dead of the priest, worst of the epidemic is over.

Dubious placement of Frankfurt on the included map.

by bb101 10y ago

Dubious placement of Frankfurt on the included map.

That is a valid Frankfurt :-) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_(Oder) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_(Oder) Ran into a lot of examples like that when merging two existing georeferenced datasets of plague outbreaks in Europe. Had to do quite some manual checking, and made good use of the damerau-levenshtein distance between two strings to recognize alternative spellings. end-result here: https://figshare.com/articles/plague_outbreaks_in_medieval_Europe/1317283 https://figshare.com/articles/plague_outbreaks_in_medieval_E...

Maultasche 10y ago

In Germany, it's common to have cities in different parts of Germany with the same name. In such cases, one usually puts a nearby geographic feature (usually a river) or region next to the name of the city. In this particular case, it's Frankfurt (Main) vs Frankfurt (Oder). I'm a little puzzled as to the inclusion of Frankfurt (Oder) on the map. It was a city of decent size in the Middle Ages, but nowhere near the importance of any of the other cities displayed on the map.

BorisVSchmid 10y ago
It basically comes down to data availability, and some historian digging through the available archives. For example, Givry is a tiny place somewhere in France, but for which by happenstance the parish registers at the time of the Black Death survived. They record the daily number of deaths, which end abruptly when presumably the priest died after recording ~620 deaths since the beginning of the epidemic in that town. The town's population is estimated at around 1170 people, based on the death rate in the earlier months, leading to a lower end estimate of 53% mortality (if the death of the priest was also the end of the epidemic). (from page 306 of http://www.persee.fr/doc/bec_0373-6237_1939_num_100_1_449196) [0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0] ;; jul. . approximate start of epidemic somewhere during jul. [0 4 4 1 0 2 1 7 5 3 1 1 4 5 3 3 4 1 5 2 2 4 3 6 2 2 2 6 3 8 4 6 10] ;; aug. [6 9 8 8 4 6 15 3 11 24 7 10 15 10 14 11 17 8 6 3 17 6 11 16 7 16 12 5 10 7] ;; sept [7 6 7 7 8 7 6 6 9 4 7 9 3 14 5 5 4 8 6 7 3 2 5 4 4 2 3 1 3 0 6] ;; oct [3 4 3 4 0 2 1 0 4 3 2 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 3] ;; nov, records end with the dead of the priest, worst of the epidemic is over.