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Catherine the Great's Greek Project: A Plan to Crush the Ottoman Empire
Out of the shards of the Ottoman possessions, Catherine planned to fashion a New Byzantine realm for her grandson Constantine, who was to be enthroned in Constantinople. On the map these lands are marked in red. Catherine is believed to have put faith in the Orthodox prophecy of Constantine, the
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If air links with Europe are this difficult, perhaps it is time to turn to the routes of Ancient Rome?
If air links with Europe are this difficult, perhaps it is time to turn to the routes of Ancient Rome? A website has appeared with an interactive map on which you can plan a journey along roads laid down 2,000 years ago. Any journey in the days of the
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A map showing the spread of dumplings along the Great Silk Road and other trade routes of antiquity
A map showing the spread of dumplings along the Great Silk Road and other trade routes of antiquity. Today you will see nothing more important
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Children, Raise Your Hands If You Too Felt Dizzy at the Upside-Down Map of the Mediterranean
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A map showing the expansion and naval supremacy of the Genoese, Pisan and Venetian republics in the Mediterranean in the 11th to 13th centuries
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A curious map showing how many years each region was part of the Roman Empire, Eastern and Western alike
There are, admittedly, questions to be put to Greece, which, if the infographic is to be believed, was part of the Roman Empire for longer than Rome itself. Here, however, account is probably being taken of the fact that Constantinople outlived the Western Empire by a thousand years, and that
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Not Alaska but Russian America
Not Alaska but Russian America. 1860
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Who Rules Russia as of 1526?
Who rules Russia as of 1526? The Grand Prince of Moscow, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland.
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How do you like the geography of the Slavic language at the start of the 16th century?
How do you like the geography of the Slavic language at the start of the 16th century? The Adriatic Sea, Constantinople, the Black Sea and even Germany, and that is far from all
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If This Map Is to Be Believed, I Am Booked for Nebraska
Geography · Maps · Observations · Paris
A map showing the journey time in days from Paris to French cities in the eighteenth century
A map showing the journey time in days from Paris to French cities in the eighteenth century. Today the trip from Paris to Nantes takes 4 hours on an express train; three hundred years ago the same road would have demanded up to 8 days, which is more than the