Historical Maps of Europe

[Psychonaut]

Here's Part I of a great collection I happened upon some time ago.

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Part II

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Part III

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Part IV

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Part V

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Part VI

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Part VII, the last one. :thumb001:

[Daos]

The Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus (1490-1557) is the earliest detailed map of the Nordic countries. It took twelve years to finish. The first copies were printed in 1539 in Venice. Its existence had long been considered apocryphal, until a copy was discovered in Munich in 1886. Another copy, found in Switzerland in 1962, now resides at Carolina Rediviva, Uppsala, Sweden.

The map is divided in 3×3 sheets with the dimension 55x40 cm (height×width), each made from a separate woodcut block. The notes on the map in Latin were translated by Olaus himself into the Italian and German language. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (Rome, 1555) is a much larger commentary on the map.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Carta_Marina.jpeg

[Gálvez]

A nice map from 1617 with decorative borders, where you can see drawings of the main European cities and the dressing customs of the people. It was done by Willem Baeuw, who belonged to a well-known family of Dutch cartographers.

http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/blaue_europe.jpg

[Gaztelu]

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/yy66/Rijska/Ethnographic_Iberia_200_BCE.png

[Gaztelu]

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/yy66/Rijska/793px-Viking_Expansion_svg.png

[Peyrol]

Pre roman Italy
http://italianfamilysearch.com/images/misc/Italian%20languages%20map.png

Mediterranean Sea before Punic Wars
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/First_Punic_War_264_BC.png


Mediterranean after Punic Wars
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/maps/med146.jpg


Terrotory conquered by Giulio Cesare

http://webpage.pace.edu/abelardo/Italyweb/archive-images/Lesson5/map1.jpg


Rome at the Maximum Power
http://crisis.blogosfere.it/images/apogeo-impero-romano.jpg

[Foxy]

The Republic of Venice with its dominions (red and pink) and its main big empories and economical colonies (pink cubes)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Repubblica_di_Venezia.png/650px-Repubblica_di_Venezia.png

Italian Colonial Empire

http://bardesane.bloog.it/gallery/16356/24233-1.jpg

[Peyrol]

Italy also possessed the Chinese territory of Tientsin from 1901 to 1945

[Foxy]

Italy also possessed the Chinese territory of Tientsin from 1901 to 1945

Really? :eek: Do you know that when communists took power in China they destroyed almost every monument in Beijing but they left the statue of Marco Polo. :) Someone likes us...

Anyway I am reading just now that Tientsin (or Tianjin) was Italian and actually it guests an Italian borough. We cannot break the balls to Chineses to have a Chinatown in Milan then... :/

http://cdn.wn.com/pd/5d/2e/2a0bcd88ade157d75f16ce77e40f_grande.jpg

[Peyrol]

Really? :eek: Do you know that when communists took power in China they destroyed almost every monument in Beijing but they left the statue of Marco Polo. :) Someone likes us...

Anyway I am reading just now that Tientsin (or Tianjin) was Italian and actually it guests an Italian borough. We cannot break the balls to Chineses to have a Chinatown in Milan then... :/

http://cdn.wn.com/pd/5d/2e/2a0bcd88ade157d75f16ce77e40f_grande.jpg

There is also a building that in the courtyard have a large statue of Mussolini holding a Lictorial Fasces.


The Chinese in Milan are becoming too many ... not at the level of the Philippines ot the Shiptars, but there are ...

[Peyrol]

Europe in 1000 A.D.
http://web.ku.edu/~eceurope/hist557/lect1-2_files/EuropeByzantineEmpireabout1000ad.jpg