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What is HGIS of South-Eastern Europe? A multidisciplinary research team of historians, archaeologists, classical philologists, geographers, urbanists, GIS and IT specialists from Sofia University works on developing a HGIS-project „Historical Geographic Information System of South-Eastern Europe”. As a first stage, the project is focused on Thrace region and covers chronological frame from the Antiquity to the First World War. Besides the core of the team a number of young PhD students and scholars are associated. The Project started 2015 with the financial and academic support of the Center of Excellence in the Humanities “Alma Mater”. Although the term “Thrace” has variable meaning within this frame every single period represented in the project defines its geographic borders, corresponding to the specific geographic, political or cultural sense. A Database has been developed for analysis and visualization of historical-geographic data such as: historical toponymy; roads and communication, military infrastructure; settlement network and historical demography; economy; religious sites, etc.