e country, dependency and region entries are in the native languages and in English. The other introductions are in English.
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Old maps
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Facsimile atlas
Old maps of the world
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The Ptolemy world map (circa 150, redrawn in the 15th century) |
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The world map from the Saint-Sever Beatus, made at the Abbey of St. Sever in about 1050 |
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The world map of Al-Idrisi (1154; this copy 1456) |
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The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by Al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily in 1154. |
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The Ebstorf(er) World Map, about 1300; earlier assumed to be made by Gervase of Tilbury around 1234 but less probable nowadays. |
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The Vinland map is purportedly a 15th-century mappa mundi, redrawn from a 13th-century original. It's suggested that it is a forgery. |
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The Da Ming Hun Yi Tu (China, 1389) |
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Kangnido Map (Korea, 1402) |
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The De Virga world map (1411-1415) |
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The Fra Mauro map (1459) |
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Map from Hartmann Schedels Worldchronic from 1493 |
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The Cantino planisphere (1502) |
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Ruysch map 1507-1508 |
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Map of Pietro Coppo, Venice, published in 1520 |
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World Map by Oronce Fine, 1536 |
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The Ptolemaic geocentric model of the Universe according to the Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho, 1568 |
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World map from the first modern atlas by Ortelius - Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) |
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World Map by Johannes Kepler (1627) |
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Map of the world (Blaeu, 1635) |
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Map of the World with insets, Herman Moll et al., 1709 |
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Map of the World from The Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Abraham Rees, 1820 |
References
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
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Entries available in the atlas[edit]
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