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Old maps

“Old maps” means maps authored over 70 years ago, that is, in 1953 or earlier.skip

Old maps are included in the Wikimedia Atlas .

For old maps of cities, see Old maps of cities.
For maps showing world history, see Atlas of world history.
For maps showing regional history, see Atlas of regional history.

World maps edit

See also edit

The Americas edit

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    Map of America by Sebastian Munster. 1561
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    Map of South America by Girolamo Ruscelli 1562
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    Map of America by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. 1565
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    Historical map of South America (1750)
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    Historical map of America. Ca. 1770
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    Historical map of the USA, Mexico and Central-America
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    Map of North and South America, French (18th century)
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    Mapa geographica completens Indiae Occidentalis

Caribbean and Central America edit

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    Barbados (1817)
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    Historical map of Central America (1860)
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    Historical map of Central America (1888)
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    Antilles. Map from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1890-1907
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    Historical map of the proposed Panama and Nicaragua canals

North America edit

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    Western part of the USA
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    Eastern part of the USA
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    Captain Marcy's route though Texas (1854)
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    Oregon Trail (1907)
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    Historical map of the Hawaii-archipelago
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    Map of New Netherland and New England (around 1685)
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    New Holland map by William Dampier (1699)
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    Milton County, Georgia (1883)
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    Cherokee lands (1822)
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    Cherokee counties (1834)
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    Elizabeth City County (1895)
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    Norfolk County, Virginia (1895)
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    Princess Anne County, Virginia (1895)
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    North America (1797)
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    Map of "Greater America" (1899)
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    by Claude Bernou (16..-17..?)
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    Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova (1635)photos
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    rail map
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    1936 clippers

South America edit

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    Map of Peru by Abraham Ortelius, 1608.
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    Historical map of Peru (1635)
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    Map of Peru. (1647). By Ioannem Ianssonium. (1558-1664).
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    Map of Peru by Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600-1667)
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    Map of Peru and the Amazonas River by Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600-1667)
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    Map of Peru by Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600-1667)
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    Map of Peru. 1683. French version
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    Map of Peru. 1683. Das Königreich Perou
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    Historical map of Peru by Herman Moll. Ca. 1720
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    Historical map of Peru by Emanuel Bowen. Ca. 1750
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    Historical map of Peru by Benard. Ca. 1750
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    Historical map of Peru by Rigobert Bonne. Ca. 1780
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    Historical map of South America by Diogo Homem. Ca 1558

Europe edit

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    Leo Belgicus - map of the Low Countries (1611)
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    Leo Belgicus by P. Kaerius & Hendrik Floris van Langren (1617)
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    Historical map of the Bay of Bajä (1888)
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    Historical map of the Stait of Messina (1888)
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    Historical map of Cyprus (1888)
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    Historical map of Madeira (1888)
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    Historical map of the Balkan peninsula (1888)
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    Historical map of the Balkans War Theatre during the First Balkan War (1912-13)
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    Historical map of the Kingdom of Hungary (1888)
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    Historical map of the Isle of Corsica (1888)
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    Historical map of Iceland (1888)
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    Straßenkarte für Rompilger (Erhard Etzlaub, um 1500)
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    Historical map of the area surrounding Toulon (1888)
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    Europe at the death of Charlemagne in 814
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    Eastern Europe (1836)
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    Historical map of Switzerland 1291-1515 (1912)
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    Historical map of Switzerland 1291-1515 (1912)
    [technical revised version]
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    Ottoman Empire, 1481-1683 (1923)
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    Carniola before 1900
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    Route of the leaders of the first Crusade (1911)
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    The Zeno Map (1558)
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    Carte ancienne de la Nouvelle-Zemble
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    Map of Europe with Finnish text from "Pieni Tietosanakirja" (1925)
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    Canary Islands map by William Dampier (1699)
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    French picture map

Austria edit

Bulgaria edit

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    Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Fugura
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    Imperii Orientalis et Circumjacentium Regionum, sub Constantino Porphyrogenito et ejus praedecessoribus descriptio. (Paris : Guillelmo Del'Isle, 1715?).
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    Map of railway lines of Bulgaria (1877-1878)
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    A map of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia before the unification of Bulgaria in 1885. The map is from an 1882 atlas
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    Mapa del principado de Bulgaria tras 1885, con la anexión de Rumelia oriental
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    Map of Bulgaria (1885)
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    Ethnic map of Bulgaria, according to the census from 1892
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    Bulgarien, alte Schulkarte; um 1922
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    Bulgaria during World War I
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    Map of National costume of Bulgaria

Czech Republic edit

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    Historical map of Great Moravia under the rule of Svatopluk
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    Historical map of the Czech state in the 10th century under the rule of Boleslav I. and Boleslav II.
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    Historical map of the Czech Lands and other lands ruled by the King of Bohemia (turn of the 14th century)
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    Historical map of the Kingdom of Bohemia during the Hussite Wars (1419-34)
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    Historical map of the Czech Lands (14th century - 1742)
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    Historical map of the Czech Lands and other lands ruled by the King of Bohemia (reign of John of Bohemia)
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    Historical map of the Czech Lands and other lands ruled by the King of Bohemia (second half of the 14th century)
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    Historical map of the Czech Lands and other lands ruled by the King of Bohemia (beginning of the Thirty Years War)
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    Historical map of the Czech Lands as a part of the Habsburg ruled territories (16th century)
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    Historical map of the Czech Lands (from the half of the 18th century to the First World War)
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    Historical map of the Czech Lands (1892)
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    Historical map of the Czech lands and Slovakia (published in exile magazine La Nation Tchèque during the First World War)
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    Historical map of the Czech lands within the first Czechoslovak Republic in 1919 (published in Czech daily 'Svornost' in Chicago)
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    Historical map of the Czech lands within the first Czechoslovak Republic until 1928 (in 1928 Moravia and Czech Silesia were merged into one administrative unit - the Moravian-Silesian Land)

France edit

Germany edit

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    Magna Germania um 150 n. Chr. Kopie bzw. Rekonstruktion von Nicolaus Germanus (15. Jahrhundert) nach dem Text des Ptolemäus.
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    Grafschaft Mark (1681)
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    Upper Silesia (1746)
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    Grafschaft Mark (1791)
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    Harburg von 1757
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    Oberamt Ravensburg (1834)
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    Historical geological map of Thuringia (1888)
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    Historical map of the area surrounding Wiesbaden (1888)
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    Historical map of the area surrounding Stuttgart (1888)
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    Historical map of the Kiel Canal (1888)
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    Historical map of Württemberg and Hohenzollern (1888)
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    Administrative map of the German Empire (1900)
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    Historical map of Brandenburg (1903)
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    Historical map of Westphalia (1888)
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    Historical map of Heligoland (1888)
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    Historical map of the area surrounding Kiel
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    Historical map of the area surrounding Potsdam
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    Historical map of the German Empire: General industry, mines and smelting industry
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    Historical map, Population density 1881
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    Historical map of the German Empire: Population density
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    Historical map of the German Empire: Historical maps 1
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    Historical map of the German Empire: Historical maps 2
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    Historical map, Religions 1881
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    Historical map of the German Empire: Religious denomination
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    Ancient Germania (1849)
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    Historical map of the German Empire: Agriculture
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    Historical map of the German Empire: Political map
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    Historical map of Prussia, before 1905
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    Baden before 1900
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    Rheinisch-Westfälischs Kohlen- und Industriegebiet (1886)
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    Province Saxony before 1918
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    Map of a part of North Rhine-Westphalia, (early 19th century) showing Ratingen, Wuppertal, Mülheim, Essen and Bochum
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    Map of the lower middle Ruhr Region, (early 19th century) showing south of Essen and Bochum in Germany.
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    Map of a part of Hamburg (Altona)
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    Historical map of territorial losses (the areas in black) of Germany after the 1919 Treaty of Versailles

See also edit

Italy edit

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    Historical map of area surrounding Bozen (1888)
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    Historical map of area surrounding Meran (1888)
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    Historical map of the Isle of Capri (1888)
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    Historical map of the Isle of Sardinia (1888)
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    Historical map of La Spezia (1888)
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    Historical map of Trieste (1888)

See also edit

Poland edit

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    Upper Silesia (1746)
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    Western Governorships (of Russian Empire) and Polish Kingdom in 1902
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    English: Hydrography of Poland
    Polski: Hydrografia Polski
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    English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
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    English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
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    English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
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    English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
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    English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
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    English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
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    English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
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    English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
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    Poland 1201-1241
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    Poland 1275-1300
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    Poland 1304-1333
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    Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 17th and 18th century
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    Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - administrative division
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    Poland in 1939
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    Poland between 1921 and 1939

Russia edit

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    Historical map of Russia (1725)
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    Historical map of the European part of Russia (1888)
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    Historical map of the Grand Duchy of Moscow (1888)
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    Historical map of the area surrounding St. Petersburg (1888)
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    Historical map of Russia
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    Historical map of Vladivostok when seized by the Czechoslovak Legions (29 June 1918)

Scandinavia edit

Slovakia edit

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    Historical map of Slovakia (1921)
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    New railways in Slovakia (1932)
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    Historical map of the Upper Váh Basin (1933)

Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) edit

Turkey edit

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    History map of European Turkey
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    Historical map of the Bosporus

Gibraltar edit

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    Historical map of the promontory of Gibraltar (1888)

UK edit

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    Map of the County of Northumberland by Christopher & John Greenwood (1828)
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    Britannia Saxonica (1833)
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    Saxon England according to the Saxon Chronicle (1830)
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    Britannia Saxonica (1695)

see also edit

Category:Old Ordnance Survey map images

Middle East edit

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    Map of the empire of Alexander the Great
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    Hartmann Schedel: DESTRVCCIO IHEROSOLIME (from the Liber cronicarum, Nuremberg 1493)
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    The oldest printed prospect of Jerusalem - By Hartmann Schedel, Nürnberg 1493 (from the Liber cronicarum)

Asia edit

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    Historical map of Central Asia
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    Historical map of the Crimean peninsula (1888)
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    Historical map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (1888)
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    map of "Hindoostan" by Arrowsmith and Lewis (1812)
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    Tonking, Östl. Hinterindien, Hue, Ha-Noi
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    Map of French Indochina after the First World War
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    Political map of India after the First World War
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    Ethnographical map of High Asia in the beginning of 20th century
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    Old map of major glaciers of the Tian Shan
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    Map of railways in West Asia in the beginning of 20th century

China edit

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    Chinese Empire (aka Qing Dynasty), 1892, from the Encyclopædia Britannica North American edition
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    Political map of China after the First World War

Indonesia edit

Japan edit

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    map on 18th century
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    map on 1911

Korea edit

Taiwan edit

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    The first 'correct' map of Taiwan in the world, which was drawn by a Dutch sailor (1625)
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    The Island Formosa and the Pescadores by Johannes Vingboons (ca 1640)
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    Historical map of Taiwan (1896)

Ryukyu edit

Oceania edit

Melanesia edit

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    Historical map of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands
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    Spanish/Portuguese map ca.1600 of New Guinea and the Malay Archipelago

Antarctica edit

Africa edit

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    Map of Africa (1508)
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    1502
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    Africae tabula nova (1570)
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    Map of Africa (1910s)
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    Map of Africa (1890)
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    Map of Africa (1812)
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    Map of Eastern Africa (1829)
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    Historical map of Zanzibar (1888)
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    Historical map of Cameroun
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    Historical map of Madagascar (1888)
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    Historical map of the gulf of Aden (1888)
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    The Gold Coast and Ashanti Confederacy (1896)
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    Map of the Great Rift Valley (1931)
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Special maps edit

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    Language world map (1888)
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    Declination world map (1888)
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    Weather map for Europe (09. & 10 Dec 1887)
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    Synoptic chart of Europe and the North Atlantic, October 1874.
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    astronomy

War maps edit

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    Historical map of the campaign by Breitenfeld (17.09.1631)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Lützen (16.11.1632)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Fehrbellin (28.06.1675)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Höchstädt (13.08.1704)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Hohenfriedeberg (04.06.1745)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Kolin (18.06.1757)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Roßbach(05.11.1757)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Leuthen(05.12.1757)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Hochkirch (14.10.1758)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Kunersdorf (12.08.1759)
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    Mannheim (1794)
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    Battle of Marengo (1800)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Austerlitz (02.12.1805)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Jena (14.10.1806)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Auerstädt (14.10.1806)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Aspern (12.05.1809)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Wagram (05. & 06.07.1809)
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    Historical map of the battle of the nations by Leipzig (16.10.1813)
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    Historical map of the battle of the nations by Leipzig (18.10.1813)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Waterloo (18.06.1815)
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    Historical map of the siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Solferino (24.06.1859)
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    Battle of Pea Ridge (1862)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Königgrätz (03.07.1866)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Wörth(06.08.1870)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Sedan (01.09.1870)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Orléans (Dec 1870)
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    Historical map of the campaign by Plewen (11. & 12.09.1877)
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