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In 1618 an engraving with a view of Moscow appeared in the six-volume atlas of the cities of the world, Civitates Orbis Terrarum

In 1618 an engraving with a view of Moscow appeared in the six-volume atlas of the cities of the world, Civitates Orbis Terrarum. The atlas was compiled by the Cologne priest Georg Braun, beginning in 1572, and this was already the second map of Moscow in the edition. A

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Photographs taken by Maxim Dmitriev in the 1900s near the source of the Volga

The officially recognised source of the Volga is a marshy area on the Valdai Hills in the Tver Region, near the village of Volgoverkhovye. It is a small spring at an altitude of about 228 metres above sea level. From a scientific point of view, the notion of a "

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The History of Poland Consists of Just Three Partitions

The partition of 1772 between Russia, Prussia and Austria, the partition of 1793 between Russia and Prussia, the partition of 1795 between Russia, Prussia and Austria. And then straight on to 1918.

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As for the suggestion that Trump's mania for Greenland stems from his ignorance of the Mercator projection, and that he therefore believes Greenland to be even larger than America, as it appears on ordinary maps, it should be noted that, of course…

In fact, Greenland, which on the map looks commensurate with America, has an area 12 times smaller than that of North America and almost 5 times smaller than that of the United States. The habitable parts of Greenland are the narrow coastal strips free of ice, which make up about

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A Map of Persia from 1922, a Diagram of the Border with the USSR, and a Map of Present-Day Iran

The shared border between Iran and the USSR ran to 2,500 km of Azerbaijani-Iranian, Armenian-Iranian and Turkmen-Iranian land frontier, together with a maritime boundary across the Caspian Sea

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A map of the West Indies and North America, 1741, drawn by Henry Overton, bearing in mind that most of the continent remained unexplored at the time: it is labelled simply “unknown parts”

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The Moscow Metro Map as an Octopus

The Moscow Metro map as an octopus. The installation is a gigantic model of the metropolitan railway. It was set up in the 1930s in Okhotny Ryad

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51% of Europe's area lies within the territory of the former USSR, and if one takes the Russian Empire, rather more still

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A Relief Map of Asia

A relief map of Asia. On the one hand, one is struck by the singularity of the West Siberian Plain; on the other, by the impassable wall of mountain systems running from west to east.

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Map of the French provinces before their abolition and division into departments in 1789

Before the Revolution, France was divided into provinces, many of which go back to medieval kingdoms and feudal territories. These provinces differed considerably in their laws, customs and administrative systems. During the Revolution they were replaced by departments, which were meant to ensure a more equitable distribution of territory and