Browse links of History glossaries

Just to let them speak for themselves: "The aim of this site is to ultimately provide additional resources and information to people interested in the various countries of Europe. As most of these countries were once a small part of much larger Empires, borders and town names have undergone enormous changes over the past couple of centuries."... ... View more

Dizionario monolingua in italiano sulle opere di fortificazione medievali. Provvisto di immagini e spiegazioni molto comprensibili

Vietnam Veteran's Terminology and Slang

A complete glossary of military terms & slang from the Vietnam War

Updated in December, 1998, to include quite a few economic terms, and many terms from Medieval Islam.

Includes not many terms, but the ones mentioned are pretty well explained.

Siyaset, sosyal bilimler ve hukuk alanında birçok Osmanlıca-Türkçe terimin açıklaması, artı İngilizce ve Almanca karşılıkları

Principais personagens, eventos, conceitos e instituições da História Política Contemporânea Brasileira

The Global Glossary is authoritative, scholarly, and reliable. Depend on it for authentic information on the Greco-Roman world. Cite it with confidence. It is a living resource. To assure the accuracy and currency of the Global Glossary, it is continually reviewed and refreshed by contributors, like you, from the Classics community worldwide.

Presents a brief explanation of the terms.

One of the easiest and most complete castle glossaries on the web. A complete listing with a clickable index.

2000. Database-driven Web site, with A-Z index. Developed as a public online resource by the Getty Institute, the Art and Architecture Thesaurus is a structured vocabulary containing 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information that may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials. Each recor... View more

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General and specific French dictionnaries and encyclopedia of different time periods: from 1400 to 1930. Fields include : law, history, science, philosophy,history, economics, aesthetic,languages, latin, vieux françois … Online browsing via pdf microfiches. From the welcome page, select "découverte" then "dictionnaires". Also contains classical ... View more

Diccionario biográfico con miles de biografías de personajes célebres

Remarkably large reference source for links as varied as law, literature, culture, business. Many links to Engl lang sites e.g. Federal Stat. Office newspage.

Handy links to the complete text of all of the different Hague Conventions in the French and English originals.

Mainly literature: dictionaries (quotations, synonyms, literary sources), thesauri, literary texts, study guides, biographies... and more. Indispensable for literary translators working from or into English.

Glossaries for Cultural and Physical Anthropology, and Archeology. Easy to use, clear, short definitions. You can even submit new words related to the above fields.

Art and Architecture

While there a number of excellent and specialized glossaries available, NetSERF's Hypertext Medieval Glossary is unique. Not only are there over 1,400 terms defined, covering all aspects of medieval life and spanning the medieval world, many terms are linked together so that one can get the best understanding possible.

Glossary of terms used in Zoroastrian languages

VIETNAM VETERAN'S SLANG AND ARMY DICT.

28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day; provides very brief entries, but links to extensive resources on the works on and by [if applicable] each person.

441 works of 59 classical authors (mainly Greco-Roman, but a few Chinese and Persian); most works include Greek or Latin originals as well as the English translation. Invaluable source for literary translators. Also includes links for further research.

2000. Database-driven Web site, with A-Z index. The TGN is a structured vocabulary of more than 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.

2000. Database-driven Web site, with A-Z index. The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing more than 220,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.

This dictionary and wordlist translates ancient nautical and maritime terms to and from English to various languages, dead and living. It is a reference work for researchers, etymologists and those who have an interest in traditional, historic and ancient sailing craft. The bias is on the Northern European languages so far, but those included are: ... View more

Links to online dictionaries for Turkish and German; subjects vary from computer to EU (esp.good for abbreviations of organizations and treaties) and forensics, botanics to sufism and automotive. Most of the links on the Turkish page are monolingual, but some between Tur-Eng and Tur-Ger as well, and the botanics dictionary includes Latin taxono... View more

glossaire anglais/français de termes relatifs à la révolution française

Extensive glossary of Old Bulgarian words that are preserved in Modern Bulgarian, along side with the Eastern analogies. The source words are not in Cyrilic, thus te user has to be familiar with the Bulgarian. The glossary is an excellent source for students of linguistics as well as reference for scollars of comparative grammar and historians. T... View more