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The geography of the modern Greek Enlightenment

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The geography of the modern Greek Enlightenment

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January 2021-May 2022

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From the last quarter of the 17th century and throughout the 18th century, a generation of Greek scholars with geographical and cartographic interests was active. From the Bishop of Athens Meletios the Geographer and the Patriarch of Jerusalem Chrysanthos Notaras to Nikiforos Theotokis, Iosipos Misiodakas, Grigorios Konstantas, Daniil Filippidis and Anthimos Gazis, a series of scholars and teachers engaged in the writing of geographies and the rendering of maps in Greek, with a leading creation of this modern Greek “Cartographic Enlightenment” being Rigas Velestinlis’ majestic Charta. The educational programme “The Geography of the Modern Greek Enlightenment” is a tour of the geographically oriented activity of Greek scholars of the 18th century, placing it in the then dominant Western current in the development of science, but also in the search for national self-knowledge and national regeneration.

(Edited and translated description from the Cartographic Heritage Archive’s website)

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The program, adapted each time appropriately to the age, is addressed to students of Highschool - Lyceum, as well as to adults.

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