About the Book
First published in 1996. Volume 2 of the International Dictionary of Historical Places covers Northern Europe (British Isles to Russia), out of a set of five. The dictionary spans from Aachen to Ypres and includes an index by country. This five-volume set presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include location, description, and site details, and a 3,000- to 4,000-word essay that provides a full history of the site and its condition today. An annotated further reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Aachen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany); Chapter 2 Agincourt (Pas-de-Calais, France); Chapter 3 Aigues-Mortes (Gard, France); Chapter 4 Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, France); Chapter 5 Alba Iulia (Alba, Romania); Chapter 6 Albi (Tarn, France); Chapter 7 Amboise (Indre-et-Loire, France); Chapter 8 Amesbury (Wiltshire, England): Stonehenge; Chapter 9 Amsterdam (North Holland, Netherlands); Chapter 10 Angers (Maine-et-Loire, France); Chapter 11 Anglesey/Holyhead (Gwynedd, Wales); Chapter 12 Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, France); Chapter 13 Armagh (Armagh, Northern Ireland); Chapter 14 Augsburg (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 15 Auschwitz (Bielsko, Poland); Chapter 16 Avignon (Vaucluse, France); Chapter 17 Baden-Baden (Baden-Württemberg, Germany); Chapter 18 Basel (Switzerland); Chapter 19 Bath (Avon, England); Chapter 20 Les Baux-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, France); Chapter 21 Bayeux (Calvados, France); Chapter 22 Berlin (Germany); Chapter 23 Biskupin (Bydgoszcz, Poland); Chapter 24 Blenheim (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 25 Bordeaux (Gironde, France); Chapter 26 Bosworth Field (Leicestershire, England); Chapter 27 Bruges (West Flanders, Belgium; Chapter 28 Brussels (Brabant, Belgium); Chapter 29 Budapest (Pest, Hungary); Chapter 30 Caernarvon (Gwynedd, Wales); Chapter 31 Cambridge (Cambridgeshire, England); Chapter 32 Canterbury (Kent, England); Chapter 33 Carcassonne (Aude, France); Chapter 34 Carnac (Morbihan, France); Chapter 35 Cashel (Tipperary, Ireland); Chapter 36 Cesis (Latvia); Chapter 37 Chambord (Loir-et-Cher, France); Chapter 38 Chartres (Eure-et- Loir, France); Chapter 39 Chester (Cheshire, England); Chapter 40 Chichester/Fishbourne (West Sussex, England); Chapter 41 Chinon (Indre-et-Loire, France); Chapter 42 Cirencester (Gloucestershire, England); Chapter 43 Clonmacnois (Offaly, Ireland); Chapter 44 Cluny (Saone-et-Loire, France); Chapter 45 Colchester (Essex, England); Chapter 46 Compiegne (Oise, France); Chapter 47 Copenhagen (Denmark); Chapter 48 Culloden (Highland, Scotland); Chapter 49 Dachau (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 50 Deventer (Overijssel, Netherlands); Chapter 51 Dijon (Cote d'Or, France); Chapter 52 Dortmund (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany); Chapter 53 Dover (Kent, England); Chapter 54 Dresden (Saxony, Germany); Chapter 55 Drogheda (Louth, Ireland); Chapter 56 Dublin (Dublin, Ireland); Chapter 57 Durham (Durham, England); Chapter 58 Echternach (Luxembourg); Chapter 59 Edinburgh (Lothian, Scotland); Chapter 60 Eger (Heves, Hungary); Chapter 61 Eichstätt (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 62 Eisenach (Thuringia, Germany); Chapter 63 Ely (Cambridgeshire, England); Chapter 64 Enos (Upper Austria, Austria); Chapter 65 Erfurt (Thuringia, Germany); Chapter 66 Esztergom (Komarom, Hungary); Chapter 67 Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne, France); Chapter 68 Fribourg (Fribourg, Switzerland); Chapter 69 Fulda (Hesse, Germany); Chapter 70 Gdansk (Gdansk, Poland); Chapter 71 Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland); Chapter 72 Ghent (East Flanders, Belgium); Chapter 73 Glastonbury (Somerset, England); Chapter 74 Gniezno (Poznan, Poland); Chapter 75 Goslar (Lower Saxony, Germany); Chapter 76 Gottingen (Lower Saxony, Germany); Chapter 77 Graz (Styria, Austria); Chapter 78 Haarlem (North Holland, Netherlands); Chapter 79 Hadrian's Wall (Cumbria and Northumberland, England); Chapter 80 Hastings and Battle (East Sussex, England); Chapter 81 Heidelberg (Baden-Württemberg, Germany); Chapter 82 Holy Island/Lindisfarne (Northumberland, England); Chapter 83 Iona (Inner Hebrides, Scotland); Chapter 84 Jarlshof (Shetland, Scotland); Chapter 85 Kalmar (Kalmar, Sweden); Chapter 86 Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic); Chapter 87 Kaunas (Kaunas Region, Lithuania); Chapter 88 Kiev (Ukraine); Chapter 89 Kilkenny (Kilkenny, Ireland); Chapter 90 King's Lynn (Norfolk, England); Chapter 91 Kinross (Tayside, Scotland); Chapter 92 Kraków (Kraków, Poland); Chapter 93 Landshut (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 94 Laon (Aisne, France); Chapter 95 Laval (Mayenne, France); Chapter 96 Le Mans (Sarthe, France); Chapter 97 Letchworth (Hertfordshire, England); Chapter 98 Liège (Liège, Belgium); Chapter 99 Lincoln (Lincolnshire, England); Chapter 100 Lindau (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 101 Loches (lndre-et-Loire, France); Chapter 102 London (England): City of London; Chapter 103 London (England): Greenwich; Chapter 104 London (England): Hampstead and Highgate; Chapter 105 London (England): Hampton Court; Chapter 106 London (England): Southwark; Chapter 107 London (England): Westminster Abbey/Parliament Square; Chapter 108 Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrenees, France); Chapter 109 Louvain (Brabant, Belgium); Chapter 110 Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany); Chapter 111 Lucerne (Lucerne, Switzerland); Chapter 112 Ludlow (Shropshire, England); Chapter 113 Lyons (Rhone, France); Chapter 114 Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany); Chapter 115 Malbork (Eiblag, Poland); Chapter 116 Melk (Lower Austria, Austria); Chapter 117 Melrose (Borders, Scotland); Chapter 118 Mont-St.-Michel (Manche, France); Chapter 119 Moscow (Moscow, Russia); Chapter 120 Mtskheta (Georgia); Chapter 121 Munich (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 122 Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France); Chapter 123 Nantes (Loire-Atlantique, France); Chapter 124 Nantwich (Cheshire, England); Chapter 125 Narbonne (Aude, France); Chapter 126 New Lanark (Strathclyde, Scotland); Chapter 127 Nijmegen (Gelderland, Netherlands); Chapter 128 Nîmes (Gard, France); Chapter 129 Nizhny Novgorod (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia); Chapter 130 Novgorod (Novgorod, Russia); Chapter 131 Nürnberg (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 132 Odense (Fyn, Denmark); Chapter 133 Omaha Beach (Calvados, France); Chapter 134 Orange (Vaucluse, France); Chapter 135 Oxford (Oxfordshire, England); Chapter 136 Paris (France): Îie de Ia Cité/Quartier Latin; Chapter 137 Paris (France): The Louvre; Chapter 138 Paris (France): Place de Ia Bastille; Chapter 139 Paris (France): Place de Ia Concorde; Chapter 140 Paris (France): Place de l'Étoile/Arc de Triomphe; Chapter 141 Passau (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 142 Périgueux (Dordogne, France); Chapter 143 Peterhof (Leningradskaiya, Russia); Chapter 144 Poitiers (Vienne, France); Chapter 145 Prague (Czech Republic); Chapter 146 Pskov (Pskov, Russia); Chapter 147 Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 148 Reims (Marne, France); Chapter 149 Rostov (Yaroslavl, Russia); Chapter 150 Rouen (Seine-Maritime, France); Chapter 151 Runnymede (Surrey, England); Chapter 152 St. Albans (Hertfordshire, England); Chapter 153 St. Andrews (Fife, Scotland); Chapter 154 St. David's (Dyfed, Wales); Chapter 155 Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis, France); Chapter 156 St. Peter Port (Guernsey, Bailiwick of Guernsey); Chapter 157 St. Petersburg (Leningradskaiya, Russia); Chapter 158 Salisbury (Wiltshire, England); Chapter 159 Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria); Chapter 160 Saumur (Maine-et-Loire, France); Chapter 161 Schleswig (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany): Danevirke and Hedeby; Chapter 162 Sergiev (Moscow, Russia); Chapter 163 Sibiu (Sibiu, Romania); Chapter 164 Skara Brae (Orkney, Scotland); Chapter 165 Slagelse (Vestsjælland, Denmark): Trelleborg Viking Fortress; Chapter 166 Soissons (Aisne, France); Chapter 167 Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany); Chapter 168 Stirling (Central Region, Scotland); Chapter 169 Stockholm (Sweden); Chapter 170 Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin, France); Chapter 171 Stratford-upon-Avon (Warwickshire, England); Chapter 172 Tallinn (Harjumaa, Estonia); Chapter 173 Tbilisi (Georgia); Chapter 174 Tønsberg (Vestfold, Norway); Chapter 175 Toulouse (Haute-Garonne, France); Chapter 176 Tournai (Hainaut, Belgium); Chapter 177 Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany); Chapter 178 Troyes (Aube, France); Chapter 179 Tsarskoye Selo (Leningradskaiya, Russia); Chapter 180 Ulm (Baden-Württemberg, Germany); Chapter 181 Uppsala (Uppland, Sweden); Chapter 182 Utrecht (Utrecht, Netherlands); Chapter 183 Versailles (Yvelines, France); Chapter 184 Vézelay (Yonne, France); Chapter 185 Vienna (Lower Austria, Austria); Chapter 186 Vladimir (Vladimir, Russia); Chapter 187 Warsaw (Warszawa, Poland); Chapter 188 Waterloo (Brabant, Belgium); Chapter 189 Weimar (Thuringia, Germany); Chapter 190 Winchester (Hampshire, England); Chapter 191 Windsor (Berkshire, England); Chapter 192 Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany); Chapter 193 Würzburg (Bavaria, Germany); Chapter 194 York (North Yorkshire, England); Chapter 195 Ypres (West Flanders, Belgium);
About the Author :
Trudy Ring, Noelle Watson, Paul Schellinger
