The caliphal route between Cordoba and Toledo. Methodological proposal of the integration of the path to its physical environment using GIS
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https://doi.org/10.17561/aytm.v19i0.1454Keywords:
Cordoba, Toledo, Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba, road, shortest path, GISAbstract
This work analyzes the route of the road that in the middle of the 10th century connects Cordoba with Toledo. In order to achieve it, we have used the tool called GIS. This platform allows knowing the shortest path between two places and we have calculated it between the two aforementioned towns, valuing the distance, the orography and the hydrographic net. The article wants to show the many possibilities of analysis that the GIS offers, as well as to emphasize the easy access that the georeferenced information has. We consider that these possibilities have not been used at great lengthyet by the archaeologists and the historians specialized in the Middle Ages, even though our study shows that is feasible joining the data from the textual and material sources with those from the predictive models. We have achieved two of the three objectives that we initially had, so the workprovides a section dedicated to the virtues and the weaknesses that the used methodology has.
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