Encoding places in a text and producing annotations offers scholars several ways to investigate new questions and support their research work. In this paper we present the work of annotating a text and the way in which we produced Linked Open Data to share with the Pelagios Commons. Using examples taken from the Chronicles of Christian Ethiopian kings, the paper presents the techniques used to encode the data and the visualizations and insights which can be produced for scholarly research from both the TEI and the RDF.