impression that events (or series of events) are isolated occurrences in time or place. Regional approaches to historical geography focus on regions or groups of regions and attempt to define their character over time. Here geography is the organizing principle. We must again first mention Alt, for whom the defining criteria of a region were based primarily on official records found in texts (Alt 1989, 137). Relevant textual data tends to be of two types: either that reflecting
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