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    …of geography was the influential Geographische Zeitung (“Geographical Journal”), first published in 1899. The first volume of his Grundzüge der Länderkunde (1907; “Foundations of Regional Geography”) dealt with Europe, but its companion volume, on other regions, did not appear until 1924. He also wrote Vergleichende Länderkunde, 4 vol. (1933–35; “Comparative…

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