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Number of Years Spent Under Ottoman Rule In The Western Balkans

June 17, 2019 Leave a Comment

Number of Years Spent Under Ottoman Rule In The Western Balkans

Map created by reddit user Porodicnostablo

The map above shows how long the Ottoman Empire ruled the various parts of the Western Balkans. Some regions were ruled for over 500 years, whereas others were ruled for less than a century and some were never conquered at all.

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Filed Under: History

1988 East German Map of West Berlin

November 13, 2018 6 Comments

1988 East German Map of West Berlin

Map found at HERE 360

The map above is one of our favourites. It shows (or rather doesn’t show) West Berlin in 1988. It was published in East Germany just one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Filed Under: Germany, History

1927 Paramount Studio Map Of California Filming Locations That Look Like Foreign Countries & Regions

July 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

1927 Paramount Studio Map Of California Filming Locations That Look Like Foreign Countries & Regions

Map found via reddit

The map above shows potential filming locations in California that best depict international countries and regions.

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Filed Under: History

United States of Greater Austria: Based On Ethnic Groups In the Austro-Hungarian Empire

December 19, 2017 1 Comment

United States of Greater Austria: Based On Ethnic Groups In the Austro-Hungarian Empire

The map above shows what a United States of Greater Austria might have looked like.

It’s based a proposal conceived by the lawyer and politician Aurel Popovici in 1906. The proposal has been superimposed on a map of the ethnic groups of Austria-Hungary in 1910 which is based on “Distribution of Races in Austria-Hungary” from the Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1911.

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Filed Under: History

Legal Status of Jews By European Country Around 1500

July 30, 2017 8 Comments

Legal Status of Jews By European Country Around 1500

Found via reddit

The map above gives a very general overview of the legal status of Jews in various major European countries around the year 1500.

Interestingly, the two European countries with the largest Jewish populations today (France: 465,000; UK: 270,000) both had Jewish bans in 1500.

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Filed Under: Europe, History

Land Reclamation in the Netherlands 1300 Vs 2000

July 2, 2017 8 Comments

Land Reclamation in the Netherlands 1300 Vs 2000

Map created by reddit user Theman77777

The map comparison above shows what the land area of what makes up the Netherlands today, looked like in 1300 compared to what it looked like in 2000.

Around 17% of the country’s current land area has been reclaimed from the sea or lakes.

You can see a gif of this process below:

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Filed Under: History Tagged With: Netherlands

Map of Europe, 1500 AD

May 27, 2017 10 Comments

Map of Europe, 1500 AD

Map created by reddit user Yetkinler

The map above shows the patchwork of kingdoms, principalities, bishoprics, duchies, republics, cities, sultanates, etc. in and around Europe in 1500 CE/AD.

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Filed Under: Europe, History

Travel Time from Ancient Rome

May 2, 2017 Leave a Comment

Travel Time from Ancient Rome

Map created by Stanford University’s ORBIS project

The map above is an Isochrone map which shows how long it would have taken someone to travel from Rome to the farthest reaches of the Roman Empire at its peak (roughly 200 CE/AD).

Travelling within the core of the Empire could have be done in under a week, but travelling all the way to the fringes would have taken someone more than a month.

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Filed Under: Europe, History Tagged With: rome

Every Bomb Dropped By The British & Americans During WW2

April 12, 2017 18 Comments

Every Bomb Dropped By The British & Americans During WW2

Map created by reddit user amazonada

The map above shows every bomb dropped by the British and Americans during World War 2, along with a limited amount of bombs dropped by the Australians, South Africans, and New Zealanders.

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Filed Under: History Tagged With: ww2

Population Density Of The 13 American Colonies In 1775

March 16, 2017 7 Comments

Map, courtesy of U.S. Military Academy via AwesomeStories

The map above shows the population density of the original thirteen American colonies, the year before they declared independence. Even back then, what would become the Boston–Washington Corridor was clearly evident.

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Filed Under: History, United States

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