• The Chorographic Commission (Comisión Corográfica in Spanish) was a scientific project initially commissioned in 1850 by the Republic of the New Granada...
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    such as war or overpopulation. He was later the director of the Chorographic Commission, created with the objectives of developing the Colombian railways...
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    founded a publishing house and a newspaper before joining the Chorographic Commission in 1850. He also served as the 4th Secretary of Foreign Affairs...
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    000 specimens representing 8,000 species. In 1851, he joined the Chorographic Commission as head of botany, which he served as until 1857. During this time...
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    the provinces that made up the Republic of New Granada for the Chorographic Commission (1850–1859). The boundaries of the province of Mariquita in 1850...
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    the Botanical Expedition, the Scientific Mission of 1823 and the Chorographic Commission. 13 May 2000 – 11 August 2000: Picasso in Bogotá 30 August 2002...
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    State of Cundinamarca", one of the compilation documents of the Chorographic Commission from 1850 to 1859 (directed by Agustín Codazzi) and from 1860 to...
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  • Agostino Codazzi and in commemoration of the centenary of his Chorographic Commission, a monumental endeavour that sought to create a geographic land...
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    with another type of map; they are distinguished from smaller-scale "chorographic maps" that cover large regions, "planimetric maps" that do not show elevations...
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    sons, John Norden junior, and Josias. The first instalment of Norden's chorographical project was published in 1593 as the Speculum Britanniae: the First...
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    from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places chorographical & philological. Vol. 4. Paisley: Gardner. pp. 522–526. Retrieved 13...
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  • Nicolosi’s unpublished work. This includes a large chorographic map of all of Christendom, commissioned by Pope Alexander VII, as well as a full geographic...
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    the Most Ancient to the Present Times: With a Dictionary of Places, Chorographical and Philological, Vol. 6 (A. Gardner, 1890), p. 683. Hamilton's royal...
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  • from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places chorographical and philological. Vol. 1 (new ed.). Paisley: Alex. Gardner. Retrieved...
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    of the greatest early antiquarians, whose 1586 work Britannia was a chorographical (topographical and historical) survey of Britain. Cotton exerted little...
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    white cattle. London: Trubner and Co. Page 185 O'Flaherty, R. (1846) A chorographical description of West or H-Iar Connaught. Dublin: Irish Archaeology Society...
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    Manchester University Press. ISBN 0 7190 3457-4. Risdon, T (1811). The Chorographical Description or Survey of the County of Devon. Plymouth: Rees and Curtis...
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    circling their prey. Jesuit missioner Pedro Lozano wrote in his book Chorographic Description of the Great Chaco Gualamba, published in Cordoba, Spain...
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    (University of Kansas:Lawrence Kansas 2011), p. 135. Warden, D. B. A Chorographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia, the Seat of...
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    seem to derive their information about him from his own writings. This chorographic ode to the town of Ath gives a sample of his poetic fancy: In 1542, Taisnier...
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    from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places Chorographical and Philological, vol. 1, Cadell and Davies Christison, David (1890–91)...
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    (Long-distance trail) The Connemara Pony Wild Atlantic Way Lord Connemara A Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught written A.D. 1684 by Roderic...
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    Katanes. (Map) Nevis Print. Inverness. Stewart, Walter (mid-1640s) "New Chorographic Description of the Orkneys" in Irvine (2006) p. 13. Translated from the...
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    dissolution of the monastery in 1539. In the 1607 edition of Britannia, chorographic surveyor William Camden records that "as for Ely it selfe, it is no small...
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    from the Most Ancient to the Present Times with a Dictionary of Places Chorographical & Philological. Gardner. p. 164. Parishes: Kingston Bagpuize', in A...
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  •  405–6. O'Flaherty, Roderic; Hardiman, James (1846). "Appendix I". A Chorographical Description of West Or H-Iar Connaught. Dublin. pp. 299–362. Freeman...
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    Influence of Consular Establishments. Paris, Smith, Rue Montmorency. 1816: Chorographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia. Paris, Smith...
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  • from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places chorographical & philological"". archive.org. 1887. Retrieved 9 April 2018. "New item...
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    & Curtis. pp. 68–73. OCLC 1205281336. Risdon, Tristram (1811). The Chorographical Description Or Survey of the County of Devon. Plymouth, UK: Rees and...
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    and perhaps Earl Sigurd expected a similar fate. Walter Stewart's "Chorographic Description" of Orkney and Shetland says of South Walls: Its south coast...
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