Historical Maps
Historical maps showing territorial changes of countries and historical events of the past.
Londinium: The Roman City Beneath Modern London
Before London, there was Londinium—a Roman city along the Thames that grew rapidly into a major center. Discover its history and compare ancient Londinium to today’s London with detailed maps.
Read MoreThe World of Homer
The ‘Homeric question’ raises many conflicting opinions about the person and works of Homer. It is thus impossible to reproduce
Read MoreProportion of whites of Foreign parentage to total population of the U.S. (1900)
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Read MoreSpatializing 6,000 years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000
How were cities distributed globally in the past? How many people lived in these cities? How did cities influence their
Read MoreLegacy of the Roman Empire mapped
The legacy of the Roman Empire is profound and far-reaching, with its influence still evident in various aspects of modern society: law and governance, architecture and engineering, infrastructure, and urbanization, military and warfare, art and sculpture, philosophy and intellectual thought, language and literature, religion, etc.
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Medieval maps of Paris
In the 10th century, Paris was a provincial town of weak political and economic importance. Still, under the kings of the Capetian dynasty who ruled France until 14 century, it becomes a significant, commercial, political, and religious center.
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How Long Is the Great Wall of China?
China’s traditional name for the Great Wall, Wanli Changcheng, translates as the ten-thousand-li wall. One li is roughly half a kilometer, putting the name at around 5,000 kilometers (3,107 miles). The actual measured length, confirmed by a national survey published in June 2012, is 21,196 kilometers (13,171 miles).
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