The Use of Minority Place Names on Maps of the Third Austrian Military Survey – With a Regional Focus on Slovenian and Croatian Lands

ABSTRACT

The paper investigates into the rendering of minority place names on maps of the Third Austrian Military Survey, i.e. the Francisco-Josephinian topographical survey in the scales 1:75 000 (‘Special Map’) and 1:200 000 (‘General Map’) executed and edited by the Military-Geographical Institute in Vienna in the 1870s and 1880s with a regional focus on two sample areas, i.e. bilingual (German–Slovenian) southern Carinthia and Italian–Croatian parts of the Austrian Littoral. On the background of already well-established national identities and a rather well-developed nationality legislation in these Austrian crownlands, the paper shows the extent to which the rendering of place names for all feature types on official maps reflects nationality rights, inter–ethnic relations and Viennese state policies.

KEYWORDS:

• Place names
• linguistic minorities
• topographic maps
• historical maps
• Austria–Hungary
• Slovenes
• Croats

Notes on the contributor

Peter Jordan, born 1949 in Hermagor, Carinthia, Austria, is a cultural geographer with a focus on East-Central and Southeast Europe, cartographer and atlas editor (1989–2014 editor-in-chief of the Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe) as well as toponymist. He teaches at the universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt (both Austria) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and holds the functions of Chair, Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy, Managing Editor, Annals of the Austrian Geographical Society. His work comprises more than 370 scientific publications.

Notes

1 The current Croatian name is Vrsar.

2 The current Croatian name is Rovinj.

3 The current Croatian name is Pula.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Grant No. I 2366-G23, and the Czech Science Foundation, Grant No. 6–34841L.