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  2. Historical geography - Wikipedia

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    Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. [1] In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history , anthropology , ecology , geology , environmental studies , literary studies , and other fields.

  3. History of geography - Wikipedia

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    The History of geography includes many histories of geography which have differed over time and between different cultural and political groups. In more recent developments, geography has become a distinct academic discipline.

  4. Historical region - Wikipedia

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    Historical regions (or historical areas) are geographical regions which, at some point in history, had a cultural, ethnic, linguistic or political basis, regardless of latter-day borders. [1] There are some historical regions that can be considered as "active", for example: Moravia , which is held by the Czech Republic , is both a recognized ...

  5. Geography - Wikipedia

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    Geography is subject to the laws of physics, and in studying things that occur in space, time must be considered. Time in geography is more than just the historical record of events that occurred at various discrete coordinates; but also includes modeling the dynamic movement of people, organisms, and things through space. [9]

  6. Geohistory - Wikipedia

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    Historical geography – changes to geographical aspects of particular societies and environments; sub-disciplines of geology, such as Historical geology – a discipline concerned mainly with the geological history of the Earth itself; genres of history, such as Geographical history – the influence of geographical factors on human history,

  7. Historical geology - Wikipedia

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    Historical geology or palaeogeology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of geology to reconstruct the geological history of Earth. [1] Historical geology examines the vastness of geologic time, measured in billions of years, and investigates changes in the Earth , gradual and sudden, over this deep time .

  8. Region - Wikipedia

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    The field of historical geography involves the study of human history as it relates to places and regions, or the study of how places and regions have changed over time. D. W. Meinig, a historical geographer of America, describes many historical regions in his book The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History.

  9. Category:Historical geography - Wikipedia

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    This category is mainly about human geography in early history. For prehistoric geography, see Category:Paleogeography. Subcategories.