History Globe Open data
Everything the globe knows about places and verses is open: plain JSON files, free to use in another site or app under CC BY 4.0. No key, no sign-up, no limits beyond ordinary caching.
Which places does a verse name
One file per book of the Bible: each verse that names a place, with the ids of those places.
GET https://historyglobe.app/api/v1/verses/Acts.json
{ "Acts.16.11": ["a6a7150", "a68750d", "a91c509"], "Acts.16.12": ["a69e1b8", "a49e1d0"], … }
The places themselves, with names in English and Russian, kind and point, are in
places.json; join on id.
GET https://historyglobe.app/api/v1/places.json
[{ "id": "a49e1d0", "name": "Philippi", "name_ru": "Филиппы", "kind": "settlement",
"lon": 24.28458, "lat": 41.01207, "verses": 4,
"page": { "en": "/en/place/philippi/", "ru": "/ru/place/philippi/" } }, …]All the files
| File | What it holds |
|---|---|
/api/v1/index.json |
the list of files and books, the licence and the credits, the build date |
/api/v1/places.json |
every place: id, names, kind, point, how many verses name it, its page (for a place some verse names) |
/api/v1/verses/{Book}.json |
a verse → the places it names, one file a book (Gen, 1Kgs,
Acts…)
|
/api/v1/events.json |
the dated events, with ref where the Bible tells the event |
/api/v1/battles.json |
battles and sieges: place, year, sides and outcome, with ref where the Bible
tells the battle
|
/api/v1/questions.json |
questions people ask, answered in both languages, with the view of the map and the sources |
/api/v1/tours.json |
the tours: their stops in order, each with its passage and note; by: "sea" for
a leg sailed, and sailed (days and verse) where the text says how long
|
Conventions
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References are OSIS with English book abbreviations and King James numbering:
Gen.12.6,Acts.16.12-Acts.16.15. - Years are astronomical: 1 BC is 0, 586 BC is −585.
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A place listed twice under one name in the source data carries
"duplicate": true; a place whose site is disputed,"disputed": true. -
The files are rebuilt with every release of the data;
index.jsongives its date.
Licence and credit
The data is under CC BY 4.0. Use it,
change it, sell what you build with it; name the sources where you show it, as
index.json lists them: History Globe by Vadym Arnaut, and OpenBible.info for the
places, the verse tags and the points. The Russian names were read from the Synodal translation,
which is in the public domain.
Data as of 3 October 2026