Maps galore

[Electronic God-Man]

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]

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]

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

[Daos]

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

[Daos]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Somewhat diverting;

http://a.yfrog.com/img611/2695/14n4.jpg
http://a.yfrog.com/img611/2695/14n4.jpg

[Eldritch]

http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/213_88/2_67/wtele.jpg

[Autobahn]

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]

I added a map as attachment. Not sure how to add it as a tag.

[Zephyr]

Very nice map, Hev. This one was missing in my "collection".

The way Denmark sold YOUR islands, specially Shetland, was just shameful.

[morski]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Bulgarian-Exarchate-1870-1913.jpg

[Odoacer]

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]

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]

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]

??

[Peyrol]

My city in 1914

http://www.miol.it/stagniweb/mappe/to914_.jpg

[Zephyr]

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]

The rain in Spain falls mainly in western Galicia...

http://geographicae.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/020810_1201_contrastese1.png

[Osweo]

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]

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]

Mao of Italy 1550, by Sebastian Munster

http://www.firenzestampe.com/images/Mappe/italia-munster.jpg

[Electronic God-Man]

....spoiler tags....please....

[PT Tagus]

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/