The NEW Our TimeLine Maps Thread!

Thande

Thande

Donor
Thanks, Oth.

Well...that's bizarre...no wonder I couldn't find it. For some reason, the same book is published in the UK by Philips rather than the OUP, even though the OUP is obviously British too. :confused: £17 from Blackwell's and I get a student discount...might be worth a look...
 

Othniel

Thande said:
Thanks, Oth.

Well...that's bizarre...no wonder I couldn't find it. For some reason, the same book is published in the UK by Philips rather than the OUP, even though the OUP is obviously British too. :confused: £17 from Blackwell's and I get a student discount...might be worth a look...
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386 pgs, 5.5 lbs., 33.4 cm L * 25.5cm W *4.6 cm D ...and just filled with maps...

:D
 
Thande

Thande

Donor
Floid said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...057183-0138835
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I have that one - in fact it's the one I've been using for this map thread. The link you've posted is of an updated edition though.
 
Thande

Thande

Donor
Jolly good - I now have my DK book.

Looked for the one Othniel keeps recommending - found it, but decided the maps were too similar to those I already had in my Times atlas. Bought the Cassell atlas of world history instead - has a lot of world maps at times other than the big round years (incl. 1812 and 1848) so should be useful! :)
 
Thande

Thande

Donor
Here is a map of Europe in 1914 just prior to WW1...

(North Africa and the Mideast might be a bit off because of the crappy base map) :

Europe 1914 2.GIF
 
Thande

Thande

Donor
Wendell said:
You are very good with these maps....
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Coming from you, that's a compliment and a half! :) (no offence intended)

These Europe maps are from a series of base maps I took off the Internet, but inevitably they needed a lot of cleaning up in Photo Editor (changing the blurry grey borders to sharp black ones, etc.). I'm still not quite happy with how thick the borders turned out; I may refine them some more.
 

Othniel

Could I get a map with these cities marked?

Members of the Hanseatic League

Wendish and Pomeranian Circle
Lübeck (Chief City)
Hamburg
Lüneburg
Rostock
Stade
Stettin (Szczecin)
Stralsund
Wismar
Kiel

Saxony, Thuringia, Brandenburg Circle
Braunschweig (Brunswick, Chief City)
Berlin
Bremen
Erfurt
Frankfurt an der Oder
Goslar
Magdeburg

Poland, Prussia, Livonia, Sweden Circle
Danzig (Gdańsk, Chief City)
Breslau (Wrocław)
Dorpat (Tartu)
Fellin (Viljandi)
Elbing (Elbląg)
Königsberg (Kaliningrad)
Reval (Tallinn)
Riga
Stockholm
Thorn (Toruń)
Visby
Kraków

Rhine, Westphalia, Netherlands Circle
Cologne (Chief City)
Roermond
Deventer
Dortmund
Groningen
Kampen
Osnabrück
Soest

Counting Houses

Principal Kontore
Bryggen in Bergen/NorwayBergen - Bryggen
Bruges
London - Steelyard
Novgorod

Subsidiary Kontore
Antwerp
Boston
Damme
Edinburgh
Hull
Ipswich
King's Lynn
Kaunas
Newcastle
Polotsk
Pskov
Great Yarmouth
York

Other cities with a Hanse community
Anklam
Arnhem
Bolsward
Brandenburg
Cesis (Wenden)
Chełmno (Kulm)
Doesburg
Duisburg
Einbeck
Göttingen
Greifswald
Halle
Harlingen
Hannover
Herford
Hildesheim
Hindeloopen
Kalmar
Koknese (Kokenhusen)
Kuldīga (Goldingen)
Lemgo
Merseburg
Minden
Münster
Narva (Narwa)
Nijmegen
Paderborn
Pärnu (Pernau)
Perleberg
Quedlinburg
Salzwedel
Smolensk
Stargard Szczeciński (Stargard)
Stendal
Turku (Åbo)
Tver
Valmiera (Wolmar)
Ventspils (Windau)
Viljandi (Fellin)
Wesel
Vyborg (Wiburg)
Zutphen
Zwolle
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Tom Veil

Thande said:
Decided to put this in this section as I tend to think of it as 'the one with the Map threads'...

I've made a series of maps showing our own world throughout history - so far I've only gone back as far as 1800 - for the purposes being templates that everyone can use. Say, if you have a TL with a POD in 1914 (such as no WW1 or a different one), you can use my 1914 map as a starting point for any maps you make of the eventual result of that POD.

I've made great use of the D.K. Atlas of World History, which helpfully provides world maps of 1800, 1850, 1900 and so on.

Obviously there are some areas open to dispute, e.g. what constitutes a sphere of influence. I welcome any comments about any mistakes I may have made.

To begin with, here is the colour scheme that I have used all the way through, this being about the maximum number of colours I think you can use in GIF format before they start to look too similar. Which countries I have applied colours to is somewhat arbitrary and based on the fact that these maps mostly covers the age of European empires. If I go back any further I'd probably need distinct colours for Persia and...

Anyway, to begin with, here is the key (or legend as the Americans would have it), showing the colour scheme:
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Could you change "sparsely populated" to "no organized government"? There were plenty of people in the Pacific Northwest and Africa, it's just that they weren't organized into modern nation-states.
 

Tom Veil

Re: the North America maps, I prefer #1 and #3. I have a pet peeve about map projections that make the polar regions large.
 

JHPier

Nitpicking:
Thande said:
And here is Europe in 1812:
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Algeria was an Ottoman dependency like Tunisia, Romania, Serbia, Lybia, etc.

Thande said:
Here is a map of Europe in 1900:
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In 1900 (and 1914) the Ottoman-Russian border was a bit to the west of the present one.
And I think Crete wasn't Greek yet in 1900.
 

JHPier

Thande said:
And this is Europe in 1925 after WW1 and its aftermath.
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There should be a strip of Finnish territory separating Norway and the Sovjet Union.

Why is Albania colored Italian? It was independent till 1939.
 
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