Pervez's map thread

Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

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Sumeragi said:
Just where do you get all these maps?!?!?! They're just beautiful!
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All over the place. Wikipedia may be the most common source, but it's far from the only one. I started the collection years ago and still intend to add to it. It's now at over 5,000 files, though going through it to select maps for this thread - I'm not posting all of them, that would be insane - has given me the opportunity to trim the fat, so I may hopefully end up with less than 5,000 by the time I'm done.
 

Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

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Sorry I didn't make yesterday.

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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

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Translation of the map legend (top to bottom):

frontiers, 1923
demarcation line, 1920-1939
the disputed territory
East Prussian border, 1914
Memel territory
Russian governments' border, 1914
the historical Lithuanian border
the Lithuanian ethnic border, 17th century
Curzon Line
the Brest Peace [Treaty of Brest-Litovsk] border line
sea exit [Palanga, in spite of being historically Lithuanian, was included in the Russian government of Courland and thus had to be acquired from Latvia after independence in exchange for some border cessions further east.]

Inset a:

1) Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1772
2) Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1772
3) Voivodships, 1772
4) Lithuania, 1922
5) other frontiers, 1922
6) lost territory
7) gained territory

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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

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Translation of the map legend (top to bottom, left to right):

frontiers, 1923
provincial border, 1920
administrative border, 1920
from Russia, 1920
governments' border, 1914
the Brest Peace line, 1918
the eastern border of the German annexation during World War I

Inset a (percentage of ethnic Latvians in 1935):

1) homogeneous (over 90%)
2) absolute majority
3) relative majority
4) minority
5) scattered (less than 10%)

Inset b (results of the 1925 parliamentary elections):

1) Latvian Social Democratic Labor Party
2) Latvian Peasants' Alliance [I can't guarantee I have the best translation for this one or the next 2.]
3) Polish Catholic Alliance of Poles in Latvia
4) Latgalian Catholics' and Christian Peasants' Party

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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

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Translation of the map legend (top to bottom, left to right):

frontiers, 1920
provincial border, 1914
administrative border, 1920
the eastern border of the German annexation during World War I
the Brest-Litovsk Peace border, 1918
territory acquired from Soviet Russia

Inset a (percentage of ethnic Estonians in 1922):

1) homogeneous (over 90%)
2) absolute majority
3) relative majority (none)
4) minority
5) less than 10% (none)

Inset b (results of the 1926 parliamentary elections):

1) Agrarian Party
2) German-Swedish Alliance [I can't guarantee this one or the next one.]
3) Russian National Alliance
4) Labor Party
5) Social Democratic Party
6) Workers' Party
hadsereg = army

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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

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Time zones of the Republic of China. From west to east, they are GMT+5.5, +6, +7, +8, and +8.5. The Communists standardized GMT+8 throughout the whole country in 1949.

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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

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Negotiations for a new Greco-Turkish border following the Treaty of Berlin. Translation of the map legend (top to bottom, left to right):

border in 1878
Waddington [French] proposal, 1879
decision of the 1880 Berlin Congress
Turkish proposal, 1880
1881 Constantinople proposal
final settlement of the border, May 1881
border of the Trikkala vilayet until 1878
Turkish-populated areas
border adjustments to Turkey's benefit, 1897

I've got 38 more of these Hungarian-language ones and they're a pain to translate. If anyone could help me with that I'd appreciate it.

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