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Electronic God-Man
04-18-2010, 03:50 AM
Do you like maps? I like maps. Osweo likes maps. And that's reason enough.
This thread is for interesting maps. Old maps, new maps, historical maps, linguistic maps, battle maps, archeological maps...I just want to see some interesting maps.
PLEASE PUT ALL MAPS IN SPOILER TAGS!
Argow cum parte merid Zurichgow
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4347&d=1271561621
Das Wiflispurgergow
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4349&d=1271561621
Alsatia
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4348&d=1271561621
Palatinus ad Rhenum
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4350&d=1271561621
Zurichgow et Basiliensis provincia
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4351&d=1271561621
Rhenus
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4352&d=1271561621
Electronic God-Man
04-18-2010, 04:11 AM
Helvetia
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4353&d=1271563236
Palatinus Rheni
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4354&d=1271563236
16th Century Southwest Germany
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4355&d=1271563236
18th Century Southwest Germany
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4356&d=1271563236
Alemannic Settlements about 450 and about 600
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4357&d=1271563236
Celts - Close-up of Southwest Germany
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4358&d=1271563236
Electronic God-Man
04-18-2010, 04:29 AM
Bishoprics and Monasteries in Southwest Germany - Middle Ages
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4359&d=1271564574
Religions in Southwest Germany at the time of the Reformation
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4360&d=1271564574
Romans in Southwest Germany
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4361&d=1271564574
Staufer, Welfen and Zaehringer lands in Southwest Germany
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4362&d=1271564574
Thirty Years War - Southwest Germany
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4363&d=1271564574
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4365&stc=1&d=1271573594
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/GrandDuchyOfTransylvania_Josephinische_Landaufnahm e.jpg
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4364&stc=1&d=1271573237
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4369&stc=1&d=1271575966
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4367&stc=1&d=1271574773
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4366&stc=1&d=1271574229
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4370&stc=1&d=1271576697
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4371&stc=1&d=1271576869
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Romania_1887.JPG
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4372&stc=1&d=1271577157
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4374&stc=1&d=1271578061
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4375&stc=1&d=1271578531
Electronic God-Man
04-19-2010, 03:58 AM
Britain 1200-1450
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4379&d=1271648380
Ecclesiastical Map of the British Isles during the Middle Ages
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4380&d=1271648380
England 1087-1154
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4380&d=1271648380
England during the Reign of Edward the Elder
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4382&d=1271648380
England in the 8th Century
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4383&d=1271648380
Lancastrian and Yorkist Estates in England, 1455-1485
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4384&d=1271648380
Electronic God-Man
04-19-2010, 04:12 AM
Southern England, c. 1000 during the Reign of King Aethelred the Unready
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4385&d=1271650047
Southern England in the Eighth Century
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4386&d=1271650047
Political Development of Anglo-Saxon England
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4387&d=1271650047
Map of England (showing select abbeys)
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4388&d=1271650047
Electronic God-Man
04-19-2010, 05:48 AM
Regnum Francorum Online (http://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/)
This is a website about visualizing early medieval Europe 614-840 on maps. Here you will find interactive maps of the Frankish kingdom, activities of Merovingian and Carolingian kings, donations of the nobility and development of the property of monasteries and other institutions. The locations on the map are clickable and connected to quotes from and references to primary sources and literature. Simply click on a location and discover which sources are available on this site and on the internet for a particular city. There is an overview of the interactive maps in the Gallery section, intended as a starting point if you are new to this website.
This site is pretty wicked. Just found it. You can click the source links on the right panel and then it will take you to the original documents where the event or place was mentioned.
Autobahn
04-19-2010, 07:00 AM
This site has much information regarding the "THE PIRI REIS MAP".
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/dicuoghi/Piri_Reis/PiriReis_eng.htm
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4403&stc=1&d=1271660370
Autobahn
04-19-2010, 07:08 AM
Ecclesiastical Map of the British Isles in the Middle Ages
From The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/historical/shepherd/Ecclesiastical_Brit_Isles.jpg
http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/historical/shepherd/Ecclesiastical_Brit_Isles.jpg
Osweo
11-21-2010, 09:31 PM
Here's a curious one on population density;
http://www.forgetoday.com/content/Images/News/map.jpg
Two Professors from the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield have produced new maps of Britain which highlight population density across the country.
The maps, which the BBC have termed reminiscent of “distorted creepy crawlies”, use cartographic technology to show which areas of Britain are inhabited by the most people.
Professor Danny Dorling, one of the academics in charge of the research, said: "It changes how you think about places," he says. "If you really want a fair map of an area, you do it by population. What you are interested in most of the time is people."
Prof. Dorling, along with Ben Hennig, a PhD student at Sheffield, have together succeeded in plotting census data for approximately 200 territories.
The maps currently cover at least 99.5% of the world's population. They can now be viewed on the BBC website.
(The political subtext is highly dangerous and subversive, of course... )
http://www.forgetoday.com/page853/Sheffield-Geographers-Create-New-Population-Maps-Of-The-World
Or this fun one from 1915;
http://mappery.com/maps/British-Empire-by-Population-Map.jpg
The Kaiserreich by density;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Deutsches_Reich_Bev%C3%B6lkerungsdichte.jpg
... of some interest in Versailles discussions... ;)
Crossbow
11-21-2010, 10:53 PM
Amsterdam, J. Blaeu
http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd490/Waldenburg/Landkaarten/Blaeu_1652_-_Amsterdam.jpg
The Netherlands
http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd490/Waldenburg/Landkaarten/Kaart_van_Willem_en_Joan_Blaeu_1634.jpg
Netherlands and Belgium plm 1900
http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd490/Waldenburg/Landkaarten/flegk04k020_k.jpg
Anglesey, by Mercator
http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd490/Waldenburg/Landkaarten/mercator.jpg
Silesia 1905
http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd490/Waldenburg/Landkaarten/schlesien_1905.png
Osweo
05-28-2011, 01:50 AM
Somewhat diverting;
http://a.yfrog.com/img611/2695/14n4.jpg
http://a.yfrog.com/img611/2695/14n4.jpg
Eldritch
06-15-2011, 11:52 PM
http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/213_88/2_67/wtele.jpg
Autobahn
01-10-2012, 07:46 AM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/PtolemyWorldMap.jpg
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the known world to Western society in the 2nd century AD. It was based on the description contained in Ptolemy's book Geographia, written c. 150. Although authentic maps have never been found, the Geographia contains thousands of references to various parts of the old world, with coordinates for most, which allowed cartographers to reconstruct Ptolemy's world view when the manuscript was re-discovered around 1300 AD.
Perhaps the most significant contribution of Ptolemy and his maps is the first uses of longitudinal and latitudinal lines and the specifying of terrestrial locations by celestial observations. When his Geographia was translated from Greek into Arabic in the 9th century and subsequently into Latin in Western Europe at the beginning of the 15th century, the idea of a global coordinate system revolutionized medieval Islamic and European geographical thinking and put it upon a scientific and numerical basis.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/PtomelyAsiaDetail.jpg
The map distinguishes two large enclosed seas, the first one being the Mediterranean, the second one being the Indian Ocean (Indicum Pelagus), which extends into the South China Sea (Magnus Sinus) in the East. The major geographical locations are Europe, the Middle-East, India, Sri Lanka (Taprobane), the Malay Peninsula (Aurea Chersonesus or "Golden Peninsula") and beyond it China (Sinae).[1]
The Geographia and the maps derived from it probably played an important role in the expansion of the Roman Empire to the East. Trade throughout the Indian Ocean was extensive from the 2nd century, and many Roman trading ports have been identified in India. From these ports, Roman embassies to China are recorded in Chinese historical sources from around 166.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy%27s_world_map
Hevneren
01-10-2012, 08:38 AM
I added a map as attachment. Not sure how to add it as a tag.
Zephyr
01-10-2012, 10:56 AM
Very nice map, Hev. This one was missing in my "collection".
The way Denmark sold YOUR islands, specially Shetland, was just shameful.
morski
01-10-2012, 05:31 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Bulgarian-Exarchate-1870-1913.jpg
Odoacer
01-10-2012, 06:27 PM
John Smith's map of Virginia:
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/uploads/2008/07/smith_map_of_virginia.jpg
A Dutch map of the Chesapeake Bay region:
http://www.unicornbookshop.com/trappehistory/graphics2/german-1720.jpg
A very influential, if rather inaccurate, map of the American Southeast, extending from Virginia in the north to Florida in the south:
http://www.bergbook.com/images/20864-01.jpg
California as an island (the past as the future? ;) ):
http://thumbs.imagekind.com/member/9a87ab92-d85c-4fb8-96ee-b07846e6e5ec/uploadedartwork/650X650/1f89ef12-cc3d-4367-aafe-3674602c0d1f.jpg
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1640h6.jpg
http://www.alte-landkarten.de/images/23970-01.jpg
Peyrol
01-10-2012, 06:36 PM
Map of Venezia (Venice) in 1273
http://venicexplorer.net/venice-guide/venice_images/index_map_1.jpg
Map of my City, Torino (Turin) drawn in 1698 by the duke Antoine Coquart de Graveur
http://www.torinoinfoto.it/mappe/1700_-_Antoine_Coquart_-_Citta_di_Torino.jpe
Logan
01-10-2012, 07:07 PM
The Danish Empire of Cnute
By 1016, Cnut, brother of the King of Denmark, had conquered the whole of England. In 1019 he inherited Denmark, and in 1028 conquered the Norwegians when they allied with Swedes (recently united under a single King) against him. With Norway came the Earldom of Orkney, from the Shetland Isles to the Isle of Man; Cnut had created the only ever Empire of the North Sea. Meanwhile, beyond Iceland, Viking settlers had reached Greenland in 986, and then Vinland in North America around the year 1000. I have shown a settlement of Greenlanders at the Viking site of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, but whether this was Vinland and whether it was still occupied in 1028 is debatable.
Danish Crown, Normandy, Sweden, Iceland, Greenlanders
http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/wiseman/Nordic/Nordic-1028AD.gif
http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/wiseman/Nordic/Nordic-13centuries.html
Logan
01-10-2012, 07:16 PM
??
Peyrol
01-10-2012, 08:08 PM
My city in 1914
http://www.miol.it/stagniweb/mappe/to914_.jpg
Zephyr
01-10-2012, 08:34 PM
Religion in Europe
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Europe_religion_map_en.png
Religion in Middle East
http://thesinosaudiblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mid-east-religion.jpg
Damião de Góis
01-11-2012, 12:04 AM
The rain in Spain falls mainly in western Galicia...
http://geographicae.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/020810_1201_contrastese1.png
Osweo
01-11-2012, 01:39 AM
Map of my City, Torino (Turin) drawn in 1698 by the duke Antoine Coquart de Graveur
http://www.torinoinfoto.it/mappe/1700_-_Antoine_Coquart_-_Citta_di_Torino.jpe
Mine in 1750;
http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/i/I1Q/4G2M_H.jpg
A little before it reached 'city' status! :D
Unurautare
01-11-2012, 07:21 AM
A map of Bucharest around the year 1900:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Bukarest_topo_old.PNG
A satellite image from 2005:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Bucuresti_satellite_2005.jpg
A 3D map of my town:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Harta_3D_pentru_Piatra_Neamt%2C_Romania.jpg
Peyrol
01-11-2012, 10:02 AM
Mao of Italy 1550, by Sebastian Munster
http://www.firenzestampe.com/images/Mappe/italia-munster.jpg
Electronic God-Man
01-13-2012, 10:30 PM
....spoiler tags....please....
PT Tagus
12-04-2018, 08:11 PM
Hand-drawn and painted map of The Peoples of Europe in Antiquity, as described by Ptolemy (c. 100-160, c.e.)
https://i.redd.it/0xva735pgih11.jpg
This map is an attempt at depicting the various tribes and ethno-linguistic groups that were mentioned in Ptolemy's "Geographia." It's important to note that pretty much everything south of the Rhine and the Danube was under control of the Romans by this time, but the continent was still a diverse patchwork of tribes, cities, and languages under the early Empire. It's also important to note that this likely is not a completely accurate representation of the groups at the time due to Ptolemy's limited knowledge of peoples in the far north / east.
Map Legend
In France, Spain, Portugal, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy:
Light Green: Celts
Dark Green: Turdetani
Yellow: Iberians
Darker Yellow: Para-celtic groups like the Lusitani and the Vettones
Pink: Aquitanians
Teal: Ligures
Purple: Germanic peoples
Cream: Rhaetians
Orange: Etruscans
Red: Italic peoples
Darker Pink: Veneti
In the Balkans, Near East, and North Africa:
Light Blue: Greeks
Darker Blue: Illyrians
Reddish Brown: Daco-Thracian peoples
Mint: Anatolians
Gold: Armenians
Magenta: Phoenicians / Carthaginians
Light Pink: Libyco-Berber peoples
Indigo: Egyptians
Light Purple: Aramaic-speaking peoples
Dark Brown: Hebrews
In Northeastern Europe:
Brown: Bastarnae
Ice Blue: Venedae
Goldenrod: Aestii
Orange: Sarmatae
Light Brown: Fenni
Olive Green: Northwest Caucasian peoples (e.g., Abkhazians)
Light Pink: Georgians
Grey (Maeotae, Tauri, peoples on Sicily, Sardinia, and the Baleares): Uncertain ethno-linguistic affiliation
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/9970vo/handdrawn_and_painted_map_of_the_peoples_of/
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