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  • Map from a chapter "On the Archaeology of the Native Population of the Eastern Desert in the First-Seventh Centuries CE"
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  • Table 18.1. Overview of the discussed 'enigmatic' sites in the Eastern Desert, from north to south.
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From " The History of the Peoples of the Eastern Desert"

  • 19th Century Caravan Routes
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  • Grandes Route Commerciales du Sahara par E. Blane
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  • Ashraf and Murabitin tribes of Cyrenaica
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  • Proto-East-West Amazigh c. 500 B.C.
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  • Moroccan invasion of Songhay, 1591-1612
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  • Morocco, 1660
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  • Morocco, 1515
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Morocco under Wattasid rule, 1472-1554
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  • Morrocco under the Wattasids again, only minor differences
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  • https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/pi3w39
    Title: Atlas of Egypt Volume I
    Only one other copy of this atlas is located in Worldcat. It appears to have been produced in limited numbers for banks and businesses. Sheets dated from 1908 to 1919. Most of the sheets say "Reproduced by the Photo-metal Process at the Survey Department, Egypt." We assume the the British Ordnance Survey had some role in the design of these shee...
  • 1909 atlas of Egypt


 

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  • Berber kingdoms in the 5th and 6th centuries AD


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  • kingdom of the vandals and alans


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  • Medieval cairo
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  • Muizz street
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  • Provinces of Anglo-egyptian sudan
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  • More maps of medieval cairo
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  • Organization of the people in the Aurès massif in algeria
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  • Book about the Aurès region https://books.openedition.org/septentrion/51894
    L’Aurès à l’origine
    « Deux vallées parallèles, l’oued Abdi et l’oued el Abiod, sont les grandes nefs médianes de la cathédrale aurasique, dont le djebel Chélia, chevron du « toit » de l’Algérie, est l’abside et le dôme ».(Claude-Maurice Robert, Le long des Oueds de l’Aurès,Bacconier, Alger, 1938, p. 117). Nous ne publions dans cet ouvrage qu’une version allégée de ...

  • Map of Sudan in 1709
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Article about the history of the bani amer tribe of the beja people
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  • Map of the major Arab tribes in libya
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  • Map of some libyan tribes in general
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  • Roman Morocco, Diocletian to 429
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  • 1956 Franco-Libyan Border agreement
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  • French conquest of Morocco 1907-1927
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  • 1. Mercenaries occupy Tunisia 2. Site of Utica and Bizerte 3. Hannon builds the Utica site 4. Battle of Utica, Hannon is defeated 5. Amilcar leaves Cartago and defeats the rebels in the Battle of the Bagradas river 6. Amilcar campaign 7. Battle of "La Sierra" (unknown enclave), Spendios, Zarza and Autarito dies 8. Siege of Tunisia, Hannibal dies 9. Hannon's reinforcements join Amilcar 10. Battle near Leptis Magna, Matho dies

Limes Tripolitanus (1st to 3rd century)
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  • Italian occupation of Tripolitania, 1921-1931
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Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene palaeohydrology of the Sahara
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  • The Libyans according to Herodotus
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  • (this has 2006 powerpoint presentation vibes)


  • Italian occupation of Cyrenica, 1921-1931
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  • Berbers in Morocco
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  • Tribes of Morocco
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  • Confederation, Subconfederations and Tribes of Morocco



  • Tribes of the Western Hodh/Northern Kayes/eastern Assaba region around 1940

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  • Main trade routes in the central sahel/sahara in the late 18th century

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  • Main trade routes in the central sahel/sahara in the late 19th century source: Histoire de territoires et de frontières, du jihad de Sokoto à la colonisation française du Niger, xixe-xxe siècles by Camille Lefebvre
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  • States of Sossebaki and Damagaram

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  • 1959 demographic map french sahara

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  • Italian Conquest of Libya, 1921 to 1927
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  • Italian Conquest of Libya, 1921 to 1931(/1934)
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  • (Use in conjunction with the previously posted occupation maps for better accuracy in the coastal areas)

  • Romanization of North Africa (4th century)
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  • Cities and main slopes of Mauretania Tingitania
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  • Roman colonies and municipalities of Mauretania Tingitania
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  • Scipio's Campaign (-204 to -203)
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  • Precolonial routes

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https://www.loc.gov/resource/g8262c.ct011308/?r=0.271,0.525,0.257,0.135,0 tribes of cyrenaica and their dislocation
The Library of Congress
Carta dimostrativa della dislocazione delle tribù nel territorio de...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. At head of title: Ministero delle colonie, Direzione generale degli affari politici, Ufficio cartografico. "La presente carta è stata compilata in base alle informazioni fornite dai vari presidii della Cirenaica integrate con ricerche dirette a cura dell'Ufficio Politico Militare ... Bengasi 30 novembre...
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  • Late Roman and Vandal North Africa
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post-roman north africa
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  • Western Mauretania Caesariensis in Late Antiquity
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  • Maghreb in 700-800s
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  • Tuareg Confederations from roughly the late 18th to the early 20th (they did change a bit, but not that much)
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Spanish map of Western Saharan tribes according to the 1974 census (this does not include 20,000 europeans)
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  • Colonial Mauretania 1944
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Wolof Kingdoms
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  • Upper Senegal Kingdoms
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  • Political Map of 19th century Sierra Leone
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  • Futa Toro
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  • Congo Confederation
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  • Kong, Samori, and Massina
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  • Bambuk towns
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  • Bambuk gold regions
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  • Bambuk states
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  • Wolof and Fulani States
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  • Bawol Provinces/ Sub Kingdoms
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  • Biafada Kingdoms
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  • Gabu Kingdom
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  • Bundu
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  • Sonkinke Centers
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  • Sahel
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  • Cayor 1883
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  • Atlantic States
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  • Sierra Leone Colony
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  • French Expansion and Retraction in Senegal
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  • "Umarian State"
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  • Cantons of Casamance
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  • Fulbe Migrations
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  • Fuladu 1881
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  • Fulbe Migrations
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  • Futa Jallon 1870
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  • Futa Toro 19th century
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  • Futa Jallon Expansion
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  • Futa Jallon Confederation
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  • Futa Toro Core Territory
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  • Futa Jallon Divisions
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  • Lower Senegal Population Movements
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  • Futa Toro
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  • Futa Jallon Expansion
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  • Gambia Chiefdoms
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Gambia Chiefdoms
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Gambia Chiefdoms
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  • Gambia Chiefdoms
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  • Gola Territory
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  • Galinhes Country
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  • Gambia 1881
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  • Mano
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Futa Jallon
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Historic Guinea
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  • Condo Confederacy
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  • Maryland in Africa
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  • Jola and Banun Groups
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  • Kaarta Kingdom
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  • Kaarta Kingdom
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  • Kabadougou 19th century
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  • Kombo Kingdom
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  • Kissi Kingdom
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  • Lower Senegal 18th century
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  • Lower Senegal River States
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  • Liberia 1780
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  • Liberia 1864
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  • Jola groups
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  • Massina Empire 1830
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  • Upper Senegal
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  • Mande Border Regions
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  • Expansion of some west African colonies
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  • Malinke Earth Tumuli
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  • Location of Sorotomo and other localities within the Segou region of Mali
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  • Mauritania Demographic Map
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  • about the extent of the "Kquoja" kingdom. The Mane kingdom basically.
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  • Kingdoms of Kajoor and Bawol
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  • Jolof Empire
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  • Koli Tenguella and Fulani domination
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  • Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland, 1947
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Grosser Kolonialatlas Kamerun on bmarchive How to use: https://bmarchives.org/items/show/xxxxxxxxxx paste the number of the sheet you want at the end of the url in place of xxxxxxxxx 100203658 German Cameroon by Moisel, A4 100203659 German Cameroon by Moisel, B3 100203660 German Cameroon by Moisel, B4 100203661 German Cameroon by Moisel, C3 100203662 German Cameroon by Moisel, C4 100203663 German Cameroon by Moisel, D2 100203649 German Cameroon by Moisel, D3 100203651 German Cameroon by Moisel, D4 100203652 German Cameroon by Moisel, E1 100203653 German Cameroon by Moisel, E2 100203657 German Cameroon by Moisel, E3 100203664 German Cameroon by Moisel, E4 100203665 German Cameroon by Moisel, F1 100203671 German Cameroon by Moisel, F2 100203689 German Cameroon by Moisel, F3 100203691 German Cameroon by Moisel, F4 100203672 German Cameroon by Moisel, G1 100203674 German Cameroon by Moisel, G2 100203676 German Cameroon by Moisel, G3 100203677 German Cameroon by Moisel, G4 100203678 German Cameroon by Moisel, H1-2 100203626 German Cameroon by Moisel, H3

  • Grosser Kolonialatlas Togo on bmarchive How to use: https://bmarchives.org/items/show/xxxxxxxxxx paste the number of the sheet you want at the end of the url in place of xxxxxxxxx 100202425 Togo, E2 100202428 Togo, E1 100202431 Togo, D1 100202434 Togo, C2 100202437 Togo, D2 100202438 Togo, C1 100202440 Togo, A2 100202444 Togo, A1 100202447 Togo, B1 100202448 Togo, B2
  • 1880-1900 colonial guinea ( Couper la Guinée en quatre ou comment la colonisation a imaginé l'Afrique Odile Goerg )

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  • Futa jalon in 1870
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  • Futa jalon trade routes
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  • Kaabu Empire in the 1600s, gray parts were controlled indirectly via vassals or whatever
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  • senegalese kingdoms
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  • Senegambia region 1815
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Population of the Dogon-Fula border region of Mali (arrow shows post ~1940 migration of dogon eastward into previously fula inhabited region)
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successor states of the Ghana Empire c. 1200
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Zulu Kingdom and neighbors 1828
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  • Orange River Sovereignty
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  • Cape Colony Electoral Divisions 1854
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Karanga Kingdoms 1830
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Chishanga Kingdom 1750
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  • South Africa 1848-1858
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  • South Africa 1859-1884
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  • South Africa 1885-1894
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  • Mfecane Migrations
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  • Alfred County
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  • Amboland
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  • Amboland
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  • Amboland
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  • Cape Colony
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  • Namibia 1901
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  • Boer Lands
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  • Orange River Freestate 1860
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Cape Colony 1806-1865
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  • Cape Colony 1876
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  • Cape Colony 1885
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  • Cape Colony Eastern Frontier
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  • San Groups
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  • Ethnic 1900
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    [*](Legend)
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  • Botswana Chiefdom expansion
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  • Southeast Africa
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  • Nambia 1876
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  • original Land purchase in Namibia
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  • Bantustans
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  • Southwestern Mozambique border
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  • Eastwards Expansion of Cape Colony 1858-1894
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  • Namibian border disputes
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  • Tribal Areas Recognized in Namibia in 1904
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  • Zulu Expansion, from 1816.
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  • The Cape Khoikhoi and where they lived
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  • Khoikhoi tribes before 1652
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  • Black cultural groups in Southern Africa
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  • Administrative Divisions of Cape Colony and Neighbouring Territories
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  • Approximate locations of Khoekhoe territories before contact with Europeans (Elphick 1977)
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  • Map showing Karanga polities around Great Zimbabwe c. 1830.
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  • Original entries of Mauch's movement amongst the VaKaranga around Great Zimbabwe 1871 - 1872
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  • Karanga Migrations during the Rozvi period c. 1750
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  • Schematic Historical Map of Actual & Speculative Links with the Zimbabwe & Mutapa State in the Chimanimani Region Sussundenga, Manica Province Eastern Shina Country ca. 1300 - 1500 and Rozvi Migrations.
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Karanga chieftaincies
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Chishanga polities in Zimbabwe
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  • Namibia 1852
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  • Griqua/Basters in the northern Cape
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Map of !konaland settlements and farms in 1889
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Map of !konaland settlements and farms in 1910
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Map of !konaland settlements and farms in 1920
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  • (note the addition and alienation of the mier-rietfontein territory after 1891)


  • Khoikhoi migrations following the arrival of european settlers
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Khoikhoi/Khoekhoe territories before European contact
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  • Annual migration patterns of the khoi groups living on the cape
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  • British transorange sovereignty with native reserves and mission lands
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  • Orange free state in the mid 19th century
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  • more british free state
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  • Basutoland/Lesotho border changes
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  • Migrations in the aftermath of the first mfecane note: this map was made at the latest in 1978 and may greatly overstate the extent of no-mans-lands, also the mfecane maybe never happened
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Native Land in the Cape Colony
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  • potentates and missionaries in southern namibia in 1867


  • Kavango kingdoms
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  • Nama c 1890
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  • Walvis bay boundary dispute
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  • African Tribes and Languages of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
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  • Land alienation in colonial southern africa
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  • Reserves in colonial bechuanaland
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  • Land use in 1913 Namibia
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  • Land use 1903 namibia
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  • Population by Magisterial Districts, 1960
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  • Long distance trade routes in south-western africa
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  • Angola-Namibia border region c.1910
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Land ownership and mining rights in Namibia (1914)
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  • high resolution version of the namibia 1904-5 ethnic map
  • (not this is before the genocide)
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  • Bophuthatswana bantustan with district boundaries and territorial changes
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    Map showing the distribution of Tswana (and Nguni) stone-wall settlements after the mid-15th century, Map showing the location of some late 18th century Tswana capitals
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Eswatini showing its extent in 1865 and the Zulu Ntjangase Chiefdoms
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PecuTheGreat


North American Pre-colonial trade routes
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West Cameroon Tribes

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Duala chiefdoms (blue borders)

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West Cameroon Tribes
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More detailed version, 1st is more general tribe groups
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Detailed map based on EU4 in 1444. This is EU4 So it isn't the most accurate, however it is still pretty useful.

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Other Maps in this series by the author. They are basically all Europe but I like dropping entire series.

a simple world relief map.

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Map of Teutonic Order in 1422, with administrative divisions

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1444 Europe Map (8k x 5k big img)

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Europe 1444 Map 1 year remastered ver

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Europe 1444 Map Version 3

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Europe 1444 Map - Version 2 (big)

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Europe 1444 Map (8k x 5k image)

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1836 Europe Map

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Rivers of Europe

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map of the full medieval mess of the Holy Roman Empire in 1444

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Holy Roman Empire in 1444, Map

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Iberia in 1444, Map

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OxSpace

OxSpace

Why are European maps being posted in an African resource thread..? What does the Teutonic order have anything to do with Africa?

Why are American maps being posted in an African resource thread? What do pre colonial american trade routes have anything to do with Africa?
 
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