e-Perimetron, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2021 [27-54] www.e-perimetron.org | ISSN 1790-3769 [39] Eleni Gkadolou  Place names at the time of the establishment of the Hellenic State: towards the development of a historical gazetteer from the map of the French Scientific Mission Keywords: Historical gazetteer, historical map, place name, Spatial Digital Humanities Summary: Place names are recognized as part of cultural heritage and mirror the natural, cultur- al and political characteristics of the space and time they refer to. Historical primary sources (ei- ther texts, tables or maps) are rich in toponymical information from different historical periods and their study, management and analysis, apart from cultural and historical interest is a neces- sity from an information management point of view. In the framework of Semantic Web and Spatial Digital Humanities, datasets of historical place names, typically in form of gazetteers that document their changes thought time, constitute a core element in any data management system. They support place-based search, display, organization and integration of digital re- sources having place names as their reference, while the spatial correlation of those resources opens new ways for their comparative analysis. This paper presents the results of the research conducted for the development of a historical gazetteer for Greek place names based on the map and reports of the French Scientific Mission that provided the first systematic mapping of the first Hellenic State. A spatial database has been created storing almost 9300 geographic entities that was further processed in order be formed as Linked Open Data. This dataset is now part of the World Historical Gazetteer providing the community a basis for further enrichment in order a profile specifically oriented to Greek place names, covering different historical periods, to be established. Historical gazetteers Historical gazetteers like other typical digital gazetteers, are directories of places that assign each place a unique, stable identifier in the form of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), including at least, three main fields (Yuan 2010): place names (and alternatives ones), spatial location and taxonomy (type of place), in order to resolve ambiguities between entities with the same name. A historical gaz- etteer has the role to document the historical sequence of the names of places in great detail (Southall et al. 2011) typically organizing those derived from large historical datasets, texts or maps. Historical gazetteers are exceptional tools for historical place name references, implementing capabil- ities of structured query, analysis and cartographic visualization (Mostern 2006) supporting historical research. They are necessary tools in the Digital Humanities and the backbone of many applications since they are vocabularies of formalized toponymical information. They support place-based search, display and integration of digital resources, as any type of information that includes the name of a place can be associated via a gazetteer’s record. By expressing place references as URIs, otherwise isolated datasets are implicitly linked to an interconnected graph of the Semantic Web. Being able to  Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation [elenigadolou@gmail.com]