Lives and landscapes of Bilād al-Shām: historical cartography from registers, gazetteers, and oral testimonies.
Leaflet/MapLibre 2D (3D in beta) with bilingual labels. Toggle Sources and Surnames lenses; layer Ottoman districts/sub-districts, routes, and settlements; export a snapshot or short clip of any view.
Access original source materials and transcriptions. Every location is grounded in historical documentation with full citations.
Trace how places, names, and boundaries evolved across centuries. Visualize change through interactive timelines.
Query by place names (Arabic and transliterated), dates, source types, and relationships. Filter and cross-reference with precision.
Reconstruct and compare documented routes, migrations, and itineraries for one or many surnames. Show alternate paths with their textual witnesses and an uncertainty badge on disputed segments.
Transparent ETL: scans → preprocessing (deskew/binarize) → OCR (Tesseract/Kraken) → normalized JSON → Supabase/PostGIS → map. Download GeoJSON/CSV; method notes and transformation logs versioned for reproducibility.