出版社：National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage
摘要：There are places which preserve the eternal recollection of some representative historical characters, even though they passed away centuries ago. One such character, who has caused the inhabitants of the Buz.u Subcarpathians in Romania to imagine various scenarios about her existence is Lady Neaga, the daughter of a local nobleman and the wife of prince Mihnea II. The controversial life and early demise of her husband convinced her to return to her native land, where she dedicated the rest of her life to helping the local communities and taking care of some family foundations. In spite of the fact that she passed away at the beginning of the 17 th century, she still lives through the local folklore, her image being always associated with places upon which there are ruins or old churches. This work proposes a historical-geographical approach in order to determine the spatial extension of the myth of Lady Neaga, using written documents, oral history and particularly historical maps. At the same time, it tries to delineate the truth from the legend and to give an account of the strong geographic-rooted aspect of this myth and its five century persistence
关键词：historical maps; historical geography; Lady Neaga; Romania
