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The Largest Cities of Europe in 1600
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A very charming "treasure map" of the Nizhny Novgorod Region has appeared on the Sobaka.ru website
A very charming "treasure map" of the Nizhny Novgorod Region has appeared on the Sobaka.ru website. The map shows, in interactive form, the main centres of the region's folk crafts and decorative and applied arts, and is at the same time a chronicle of Russian
NB! · Geography · Maps · Monarchies · Humour
Has It Fallen Apart?
Has it fallen apart? The Holy Roman Empire in 1359. Mind you don't lose count
Geography · Maps · Science
Antarctica has appeared on maps of the world since the time of Ptolemy, mostly labelled Terra Australis Incognita
Antarctica has appeared on maps of the world since the time of Ptolemy, mostly labelled Terra Australis Incognita. It is there, too, on this world map by Guillaume Le Testu of 1555, drawn in different projections, which records the Strait of Magellan, by then surely well known. From the seventeenth
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The "Glory of Russia" Medal Instituted by Catherine the Great Is Linked to the First Russian Circumnavigation
The expedition was conceived "on the occasion of the attempt by English trading entrepreneurs upon the conduct of trade and the hunting of beasts in the Eastern Sea" and in order to preserve "our right to the lands discovered by Russian navigators". Among the expedition'
NB! · The East · Geography · Maps
A Map of Asia, 1745
A map of Asia from 1745. It shows Great Tartary, which comprises Independent Tartary and Chinese Tartary
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Places Around the World Where Roman Coins Have Been Found
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Map of the World According to Hecataeus of Miletus, the Father of Geography, Who Lived in the 6th Century BC
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Map of Italy during the Renaissance
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The Netherlands in 1300 and in 2023
The Netherlands in 1300 and in 2023. This is what a successful battle with Poseidon looks like
NB! · Architecture · Maps · Monarchies · Paris
On the wall of Napoleon III's study hangs the new plan of Paris, enlarged to 20 arrondissements and rebuilt at the emperor's behest by Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (the surname derives from the German Hausmann) in 1860
On the wall of Napoleon III's study hangs the new plan of Paris, enlarged to 20 arrondissements and rebuilt at the emperor's behest by Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (the surname derives from the German Hausmann) in 1860. The Paris we see today came into being thanks