Categories for collections by region

List of categories

The map on the right was created with the Visual Editor (see https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:CRolker/Karte for the original version, with Open Street Map as base map, hence with roads, cities, and modern borders). The goal was to divide the area where Latin canon law collections emerged (most of Western Europe plus northern Africa) into large regions. I roughly followed the tag often found in palaeography, but in many cases terms like "Western France" are used in different ways, so in many cases I made ad hoc decisions.

Many regions are parts of today's states, for the borders I have orientated myself at hetigen administrative areas.

The regions are:

• France and its neighbors
  • Category:Collection from Western France = region Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
  • Category:Collection from Southern France = Auvergne-Rhones-Alpes, Provence ..., Languedoc, plus Catalonia and French-speaking Switzerland south of Lake Geneva
  • Category:Collection from Eastern France = Bourgogne-Franche Comté and Grand Est plus Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland north of Lake Geneva.
  • Category:Collection from Northern France = the rest, i.e. Brittany, Normandy, Ile de France, Pays-de-la-Loire and Centre-Val-de-Loire.
• Category:Collection from Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain but not Catalonia)
• Italy
  • Category:Collection from Northern Italy = Italy north of the Appennino settentrionale inluding Italian and Rhaeto-Romanic speaking Switzerland
    • subcategories include Florence, Milan, Polirone, ...
  • Category:Collection from Central Italy = the modern regions of Marche, Umbria, Abbruzzo and Lazio
    • subcategories include Rome
  • Category:Collection from Southern Italy = everything south of Central Italy, including Sicily
• Germany
  • Category:Collection from Southern Germany = Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, German-speaking northern Switzerland and parts of Austria (the states of Upper Austria, Salzburg, Carinthia, Tyrol nud Vorarlberg)
  • Category:Collection from Western Germany = North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Saarland
    • subcategories include Worms
• Category:Collection from England = England and Wales
• Category:Collection from Ireland = Ireland (island)
• Category:Collection from Northern Africa = the late-antique Province of Africa

Every region is placed in either Category:Collection from Northwestern Europe or Category:Collection from Southern Europe / Mediterranean, or in a subcategory of either categories (e.g. Category:Collection from Italy.

Feel free to use more specific categories to indicate the place of origin, e.g. [[Category:Collection from Bologna]], [[Category:Collection from Chartres]], [[Category:Collection from Rome]].

Always use only one category, namely the most specific one available.