chorography
- noun
- /kəˈrɒɡrəfi/
- Archaic
:
corografía
- The detailed mapping of the region was called chorography, which included both its natural and cultural features.
Examples
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Kagan applies the term "chorography" to the local histories that became popular in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain (84-85).
Academic text (1997) -
For a discussion on the relations between the terms topography, chorography, and cartography and how they changed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, see Casey, Representing Place, 157-59.
Academic text (2012) -
It should also incorporate ethnology, genealogy, and urban chorography and thus communicate the totality of past experience.
Academic text (1997) -
A good example is Sauer's use of certain ancient Greek authors in "The Morphology of Landscape," first published in 1925, to demonstrate that geography was and had always been chorography (1963a).
Academic text (2012) -
In academic circles, chorography plays a crucial role in understanding the geographical context of historical events.
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To appreciate the landscape, one must study the chorography of the area, which reveals its distinctive characteristics.
Synonyms
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The study or map showing the shape and features of land
A detailed map that shows land shape and features like hills and rivers
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
chorography = choro + graphy
The term is built from classical combining forms meaning roughly 'region' and 'description or writing', but the rare element 'choro-' is unlikely to be known by an average B1 learner, so the meaning is not readily inferable.
Etymology
Chorography comes from Greek parts: choro- from khora meaning 'place' or 'region', and -graphy meaning 'writing' or 'description', the same ending as in geography. So, chorography is the 'writing' or map of a particular place, which is why it means a detailed map or description of a region.