Base maps (rivers, coastline) for countries around the Mediterranean has been added to the RFO database.
Click the links below to load the Pleiades layer, and visit the ancient Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, or Alexandria

There is a preview of the book available at Google Books. The archeological evidence indicates that Alemannic hilltop settlements were not founded until the fourth century and stopped being occupied by the end of the fifth century. Most of these sites were abandoned around A.D. 500, which can be explained by the defeat of the Alemanni by the Franks.
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Itinerary of Charlemagne, Paris and the Forêt des Yvelines.
Itinerary and activities of Charlemagne (768-814) in the Paris-region, displaying places of issue and event, recipients and property mentioned in the charters. The scale of the map is at 100 meter per pixel. Click the map to view in full-size (905x630 pixel, PNG-image, 136 kB), click this link to open the interactive map.

Wissembourg, Alsace, France
Possessions of monastery Wissembourg in the early medieval period, scale 150 meter per pixel. Click the map to view in full-size. Click this link to load the interactive map

The Regnum Francorum Online (beta) historical database explors new possibilities in digital diplomatics. The long term goal of the database is to geo-reference all the charters of Merovingian and Carolingian Europe, together with other meta-data (time, agent, purpose), and to provide persistant links to editions of charters and manuscripts as they become available on the internet. Examples of digital libraries where individual source-documents can be referenced with persistant URI:s are, dMGH, Regesta Imperii, Google Books, Gallica, MDZ, ELEC, ARTEM, LBA and CDLM.

Load the interactive map of Charles the Bald following this link, including a background layer with the borders from the Treaty of Verdun (843). Note that this layer is not complete, but contains data of the charters that currently can found online.

Presentation slides

Das Internetportal Regnum Francorum Online verknüpft umfangreiches historisches Kartenmaterial mit im WWW frei verfügbaren wissenschaftlichen Ressourcen, wie z. B. Quelleneditionen. Als ein auf Open Source-Basis entwickeltes Projekt ist es auf ständige Erweiterung angelegt und eine Einladung zur konstruktiven Mitarbeit. Johan Åhlfeldt stellt das von ihm ins Leben gerufene Projekt vor und erläutert die zugrundeliegende Technik. Im Anschluß an den Vortrag ist die Möglichkeit gegeben, Fragen zu stellen und Anregungen zur Weiterentwicklung der Website mit dem Vortragenden zu diskutieren.

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft
Konviktstr. 11
53113 Bonn

The photo above shows the archeological Open-air museum Groß Raden, with the reconstructed main fort and access-bridge. Source: Wikipedia, photo by Ronny Krüger.

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The satellite photo above from Google Maps, shows the Frankish fort at Hohenwarthe, north of Magdeburg. According to the Chronicon Mossiacense, an unnamed fort north of Magdeburg, on the opposite side of the river Elbe, was built in 806 by Charles the Younger, the son of Charlemagne. The identity of this fort with Hohenwarthe is confirmed by the archeological excavations in 2009 and 2010.

A new feature of Regnum Francorum Online is that maps from Google can now be embedded next to the maps of the application. The default view is satellite photos.
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