1914 Japanese pictorial map of Europe, Asia and North Africa
1914 Japanese pictorial map of Europe, Asia and North Africa
‘I do like the sown effect on Africa, as if the Europeans just tied the lands together’
1914 Japanese pictorial map of Europe, Asia and North Africa
‘I do like the sown effect on Africa, as if the Europeans just tied the lands together’
Theater of war in Europe, Africa, and Western Asia - National Geographic Society (1942)
‘I’m in love with the way Ireland is represented on this map
According to Wikipedia, the Brits and Irish were disputing the name of Ireland, starting in 1937. Then, the Irish wanted to call it Éire in Irish but Ireland in English; the Brits wanted to call it Eire (no accent) in English to better separate it from Northern Ireland. There was mention of an Irish politician who was ambivalent to that fact; he appreciated the nation being called Eire but also knew that calling it Ireland would cement its claim to the whole island.
It’s hard to say what the NatGeo map makers were thinking when they made this. Maybe they were following the British state’s example; maybe they were opting for a more nativist representation of Ireland. Probably, they just picked what would best represent the country to those reading the map and didn’t give it much thought’
1893 Ottoman map of Europe
‘Are the long lines between words just a way of writing across the whole country or sea?
Noooooooooooooooorway
Mediterraaaaaaaaaaaaaanean Sea’
April average mean temperature in Europe
‘Imagine someone from Iceland taking a trip to Kuwait’
Central Europe during the time of the Hohenstaufen Emperors (1250)
‘Wow, I thought Italy was fragmented at that time, but I didn’t know that Western Germany was even more! I wonder whether some Northern or Central Italian cities which were still fairly independent in XIII century, such as Bologna, should have been shown as separated entities from the territory around. In any case, very interesting map. Greetings from Kirchenstaat!’
Landform map of Eurasia (1945)
‘Never realised the Urals lined up with those snake like island in the Arctic’
All types of vegetation and urban/built-up areas of Europe
‘I am a norwegian who loves nature and I remember I had plans to travel around europe and see all the nature then I looked at google maps and got really dissapointed. Where is all the nature left in europe?? It’s just a few patches of woods surrounded by farms and cities. It seems you can’t get lost in nature because if you walk just a little it ends..’
1929 National Geographic map of Europe and the Near East
‘Funny how much smaller the Netherlands is’–walterbanana
Early/mid 17th century map of Europe - by Willem Janszoon Blaeu
“Interesting how the Scottish islands and the south of Portugal seem to be independent also how the Scottish border seems to extend to Newcastle where Hadrian’s wall once was … The south of Portugal is the Kingdom of the Algarve. Scotland conquered Newcastle during the English Civil War”–whoah
Birdseye view of Europe, looking east to west from Moscow (1944) - by Richard Edes Harrison
‘wow it actually looks way better this way!
also spain is a head and italy an arm… of a big hunched-back dinosaur-like creature’–topherette
1895 Ethnographic map of Europe
‘Now the Albanians in nowadays Serbia were deported to Turkey’–Shqiptaria580
German satirical map of Europe from 1914
‘Ireland cutting the chain to the UK is a pretty good prediction given that this was before the Easter Rising’–OccasionallyQuotable
1910 Languages of Central Europe (without borders)
‘Reddish hues are Germanic languages, bluish ones are Romance, green Slavic.
The big light pink blob in the center is High German. To the north of it, darker pink, Low German and, further north and darker, Danish. The reddish hue on the border between Danish and Low German, and also in the Netherlands, is Frisian. Continuing counterclockwise you have Dutch, French, Italian; then purple is probably Friulian, which here is counted as a separate language while things like Lombardian are grouped as dialects of Italian.
Next comes Yugoslavian, including Slovenian and Bosnio-Croat-Montenegro-Serbian. Brown is Hungarian, light green is Slovakian, the green almost entirely surrounded by German is Czech, the green entirely surrounded by German is Sorbian, the green with lots of small German enclaves is Polish. The yellowish tone in the northeast is likely Lithuanian’–eukubernetes
1940s ethnographical map of Central Europe (west sheet)
‘Fantastic. This kind of maps is what I’m here for!’–idlz
1940s ethnographical map of Central Europe (east sheet)
‘One of the most interesting ethnicity maps I have ever seen.
I would love to have something like this for Poland and the Baltics’–rolfk17
1856 Geological map of Europe
‘What a fascinating map! So many interesting details. For example ehy do those red bits (granite?) suddenly stop jyst before they empty into the Caspian Sea? Edit : my bad - Black Sea’–brmmbrmm
1856 map of Eurasia River Systems
‘Didn’t notice the title at first & thought it was an alt-history map. You could almost divide the Basins into empires of their own; like in the Atlantic River systems most all of it was controlled by Rome, outside of Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, & Russia’–aces101
The Mediterranean Archipelago and the Alp Trench : inverted relief map
‘immediately plants flag in Doggerland’–TheMulattoMaker