Erdélyi unitárius egyházkörök térinformatika alapú történeti
GIS-based History-Reconstruction and Database

Summary/Abstract: Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. This paper deals with the part of GIS which supports the historical reconstruction of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church. Our goal is to outline the historical values of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, to shed light on the important events that shaped its history, to analyze the spatial unfolding of its changes. The sophisticated GIS environments have the potential of analyzing the data from diff erent sources as well as representing the results. In order to show the capabilities of the geoinformatical methods, the paper discusses the historical ambit of Unitarian districts within Transylvania.

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