Q-Bam Historical Map Thread

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January 1, 1300 A.D.
 
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Update of my 1773 map, I think I corrected a bit the borders of Louisiana. I added a few enclaves in India like Pulicat and Sadras, and I tried to fix the borders of Madras and Mysore. I don't remember right now if I did anything else. I wanted to rework Rupert's Land to match it with the watersheds and the HBC's charter, however, it seems like the Qbam map isn't accurate enough in Canada (Here I asked about this) or perhaps isn't accurate in the United States' counties, which would mean that I should rework the borders of Louisiana...

Edit: I tried to draw the borders of the Prince-Bishopric of Trento.
 
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Found this map on r/MapPorn, which claims to depict the suyu and (more importantly) wamani (second-level admin divisions/governates) of the Inca Empire. It's almost certainly not actually accurate, as no complete records of the wamani exist (afaik), but hey if anyone wants to give QBAMifying it a shot, I still think it could be useful if there are no other sources.
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Link to thread on reddit.
 
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Found this map on r/MapPorn, which claims to depict the suyu and (more importantly) wamani (second-level admin divisions/governates) of the Inca Empire. It's almost certainly not actually accurate, as no complete records of the wamani exist (afaik), but hey if anyone wants to give QBAMifying it a shot, I still think it could be useful if there are no other sources.
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Link to thread on reddit.
OP seems to reference John Rowes, who studied the Incan Empire. I'm not sure where he's exactly getting the other subdivisions but this is Rowes' map:

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Can someone tell me where these Egypt subdivisions are coming from? They are from @Crazy Boris 1950 map.
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I've scoured the internet for a bit now and I can find any reference to these governances borders, The border department's borders seem to be extremely vague and I have no clue what these upper Nile subdivisions are? And are the lower Nile subdivisions are the same as the modern one? It says the Western governance within the border department owns Madinet Borg Al Arab, which is currently in the Alexandria governance on this map.

Most maps of British Egypt have subdivisions running along parallels, such as this one.
Not claiming that the Kingdom of Egypt kept these divisions, but when was the change? And what is the reference for the map above, because it does seem to be relating to these later divisions, at least for lower Egypt.
 
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Crazy Boris

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Can someone tell me where these Egypt subdivisions are coming from? They are from @Crazy Boris 1950 map.
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I've scoured the internet for a bit now and I can find any reference to these governances borders, The border department's borders seem to be extremely vague and I have no clue what these upper Nile subdivisions are? And are the lower Nile subdivisions are the same as the modern one? It says the Western governance within the border department owns Madinet Borg Al Arab, which is currently in the Alexandria governance on this map.

Most maps of British Egypt have subdivisions running along parallels, such as this one.
Not claiming that the Kingdom of Egypt kept these divisions, but when was the change? And what is the reference for the map above, because it does seem to be relating to these later divisions, at least for lower Egypt.

I can’t remember exactly where I found the data for these, since I made that map a fairly long time ago. I think I might have used a page on Arabic Wikipedia, and/or something from the David Rumsey collection. I do clearly remember something specifying the eastern desert, western desert, and Sinai having a different status than the other divisions.
 
I can’t remember exactly where I found the data for these, since I made that map a fairly long time ago. I think I might have used a page on Arabic Wikipedia, and/or something from the David Rumsey collection. I do clearly remember something specifying the eastern desert, western desert, and Sinai having a different status than the other divisions.
Hmm, I searched through DR and found nothing regarding Egypt's subdivisions in the 20th century.

I'm aware of the different status, I linked in my OP about the border departments, they're military administrative regions. Though the map provided on the arabic wiki is super vague. The closes map I've found is this CIA map in 1967, though the administrative borders seem...wrong. They draw Aswan as a small blob...that doesn't even have Aswan in it despite signifying that it's the region's capital.
 

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Amazing maps, as always @Crazy Boris! I’m curious; what source did you use to trace Thailand’s internal borders? I’d love to take a gander at it! Thanks.
now this might be a very late request, but what was the source for thailand's internal divisions?



The internal borders of the UK are anachronistic, BTW.

EDIT: Also, I'm pretty sure that the internal borders for Italy are also anachronistic.

I think Italy's good but I may have used the wrong reference for the UK, I'll try and fix it soon.
 
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