A partial listing of localities in European Russia, Armenia, Central Asia and Siberia
Places starting with letters D through H

Gazetteer donated by Granville Cunningham of Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

Source Information

The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer contains 500 Maps and diagrams in colour [with commercial statistics and 190 inset maps] and a 284 page gazetteer index of 105,000 place names. The publisher was Carmelite House, Carmalite Street, London E. C. No publishing date is listed. However, based on the published 1907 commercial statistics contained, it is presumed to have been published circa 1908-1909.

This is a very important map and gazetteer reference source. The text and language is in English. The apparent publishing year (circa 1908-1909) is just prior to the start of World War I - one of the last atlas / gazetteers to be published just prior to World War I (1914-1915). Thus it presents the maximum geographic scope of the three great European empires (Austria / Hungary, Germany and Russia) just prior to their dissolution at the end of World War I (1918-1919).

This file represents a partial index to names on about 12 pages of Harmsworth Gazetteer maps. The original gazetteer was not specific as to the exact page where a locality was located - it merely mentioned each map (printed on two pages) and the coodinates on the map.

The index