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Map - 650 AD Byzantine Empire654 viewsThe Byzantine Empire in 650 - by this year it had lost all of its southern provinces except the Exarchate of Africa.

Map - The frontier between the Roman/Byzantine and Sassanid Persian empires in Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries)776 viewsThe frontier between the Roman/Byzantine and Sassanid Persian empires in Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries). Basemap taken from Image:Arshakuni Armenia 150-en.svg. Sources: G. Greatrex & S.N.C. Lieu: The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (Part II, 363�630 AD). Routledge 2002, ISBN 0-415-14687-9, pp. xxix�xxxii; R.W. Thomson, J. Howard-Johnston & T. Greenwood: The Armenian history attributed to Sebeos Liverpool University Press 1999, ISBN 0-85323-564-3, pp. 360�363; Map of the cities listed in Hierocles' Synecdemus after Ernest Honigmann, Le Synecd�mos d'Hi�rocl�s et l'opuscule g�ographique de Georges de Chypre, Brussels 1939

Map - 842 AD Anatolia and the Byzantine-Arab Frontier Region562 viewsByzantine Asia Minor (Anatolia) and the Byzantine-Arab frontier region in 842 AD, with provinces and major settlements. Topography taken from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain, other wise self-made. Sources: W. Treadgold, The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 (1988), pp. 316, 336; The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492 (2009), p. 371; Droysen - Ostr�misches Reich.jpg; A. Kazhdan et al., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991), p. 2035

Map - 1375 Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia522 views

Map - 814 AD Europe747 views

Map - 843 - 870 AD The Division of the Carolingian Empire: Verdun 843 and Mersen, 870557 views

Map - 622 750 AD Age of the Caliphs582 views

Map - 1200 AD Anatolia436 viewsAD 1200 Anatolia

Map - 1300 AD Anatolia533 viewsAD 1300 Anatolia

Map - Seljuks of Rum484 viewshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum

Map - Asia Medieval Commerce523 views

Map - 1140 AD Asis Minor and the Crusader States386 views

Map - Decline of the March of Brandenburg under the Houses of Wittelsbach and Luxemburg322 views

Map - 1025 AD Byzantine Empire332 views

Map - 717 AD Byzantine Empire323 views

Map - 867 AD Byzantine Empire335 views

Map - 814 AD Europe and the Mediterranean411 views

Map - 1265 AD Byzantine Empire371 views

Map - 1355 AD Byzantine Empire494 views

Map - 1081 AD Byzantine Empire339 views

Map - 1400 AD Byzantine Empire516 viewsByzantine Empire 1400

Map - 1400 AD Byzantine Empire286 views

Map - 395 AD Byzantine Empire292 views

Map - 550 AD Byzantine Empire404 views

Map - 554 AD Byzantine Empire280 views

Map - 1180 AD Byzantine Empire328 views

Map - 1170 AD Byzantium Empire319 views

Map - 750 AD Islamic Califate294 views

Map - 814 AD Europe at the Death of Charles the Great349 views

Map - 1378 AD Central Europe270 views

Map - 1477 AD Central Europe320 views

Map - 1547 AD Central Europe334 views

Map - 1648 AD Central Europe266 views

Map - Spread of Christianity296 views

Map - LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS341 viewsThis is the earliest proper map (as opposed to panorama) of London known. Attributed to Ralph Agas, and probably surveyed between 1570 and 1605. The original was 6 foot 0.5 inches long by 2 feet 4.5 inches wide. This much reduced image, a scan of a copy of a lithograph of a copy, was itself badly repaired with sellotape and has had to be "restored"; so is hardly a truly faithful representation of the original, but few good copies exist and no other detailed public domain images are known.

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Map - Eastern Hemisphere in 600 AD387 views

Map - 1205 - 1230 AD The Despotate of Epirus370 views

Map - 1700 AD Europe365 views

Map - 1000 AD Europe and the Byzantine Empire424 views

Map - 1142 AD Europe394 views

Map - 1360 AD Europe and the Mediterranean409 views

Map - 1550 AD Europe and the Mediterranean352 views

Map - 1560 AD Europe and the Mediterranean347 views

Map - 600 AD Europe and Eastern Roman Empire 318 views

Map - 650 AD Europe and the Mediterranean342 views

Map - 1328 AD Europe and the Mediterranean319 views

Map - 1430 AD Europe and the Mediterannean296 views

Map - 1470 AD Europe and the Mediterannean260 views

Map - 1092 AD Europe248 views

Map - 1648 AD Europe and the Mediterranean255 views

Map - 1097 AD Europe and the Mediterranean 288 views

Map - 1190 AD Europe and the Mediterranean331 views

Map - 1190 AD Europe and the Mediterranean343 views

Map - 476-493 AD Europe in the Time of Odoacer351 views

Map - 900 AD The Peoples of Europe391 views

Map - 1097 AD Europe and the Mediterranean316 views

Map - 1154 Duchy of Aquitane310 viewsMedieval France 1154

Gepidia at its largest territorial extent66 viewsThe Gepids reached the zenith of their power after 537, settling in the rich area around Singidunum (today's Belgrade). For a short time, the city of Sirmium (present-day Sremska Mitrovica) was the center of the Gepid State and the king Cunimund minted golden coins in it. In 546 the Byzantine Empire allied themselves with the Lombards, and in 552 the Gepids suffered a disastrous defeat from Alboin, king of the Lombards, in the Battle of Asfeld, after which Alboin had a drinking cup made from the skull of Cunimund.

List of Gepid kings
Ardaric, fl. c. 454
Gunderit
Thraustila, fl. 488
Thrasaric, fl. 505
Mundonus
Elemund, ?-548
Thurisind, 548-c. 560
Cunimund, c. 560-567

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gepids

Map - 1355 - 1366 AD The Gough Map of Britain351 viewsThe Gough Map or Bodleian Map is a map of Great Britain, dating between 1355 and 1366, and is the oldest surviving route map of Great Britain. Its precise date of production and authorship are unknown. It is named after Richard Gough, who donated the map to the Bodleian Library in 1809.
Dating of the map has been undertaken based on historical changes of place names and sizes. Gough believed the map to date from the reign of Edward III, but 19th-century scholarship suggested that it dated from c.1300, during the reign of Edward I. The map is now generally believed to have been made within an eleven-year window, due to the ability to date some of its features. The earliest given date is deduced by the depiction of a city wall around Coventry, which was first constructed in 1355. The latter date is usually given as 1366, the year in which the town marked on the map as Sheppey was renamed Queenborough. Lexicographic evidence also suggests that it dates from the latter half of the 14th century. It is, however, believed that the map is based on an earlier version, made around 1280.

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Map - 1000 AD Italy317 viewsPolitical map of Italy in 1000 AD (CE).

Map - 1494 Italy358 viewsPolitical map of Italy in early 1494, before the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII of France.

Map - 1084 Italy and the Illyrian Coast488 viewsMap of Italy and the Illyrian coast in the year 1084.

MAP - 555 AD - Byzantine Empire Under Justinian401 viewsThe Eastern Roman Empire (red) and its vassals (pink) in 555 AD during the reign of Justinian I.

Map - Kingdom of Northumbria 802 AD16 viewsKingdom of Northumbria 802 AD

The Kingdom of Northumbria was a medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland. The name derives from the Old English Nor�an-hymbre meaning "the people or province north of the Humber", which reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary. Northumbria started to consolidate into one kingdom in the early seventh century. At its height, the kingdom extended from just south of the Humber to the River Mersey and to the Firth of Forth, in Scotland. Northumbria ceased to be an independent kingdom in the mid-tenth century.

1204 AD The Latin Empire and Partition of the Byzantine Empire after the 4th Crusade, c. 1204.34 viewsThe Latin Empire and the Partition of the Byzantine Empire after the 4th crusade, c. 1204; borders are approximate.

Map - Barbarian Migrations350 views

Map - 1250 AD Medieval Europe in the 13th Century806 views1 comments

Map - 800 AD Mediterranean324 views

Map - 476 AD Mediterranean379 views

Map - Arab Invasion of Anatolia and Armenia, 637 - 638 AD434 viewsArab Invasion of Anatolia and Armenia, 637 - 638 AD

Map 635 AD Muslim-Byzantine troop movement500 viewsMuslim-Byzantine troop movement from September 635 to just before the event of the Battle of Yarmouk.

In 629, the Islamic prophet Muhammad had recently succeeded in unifying all of the nomadic tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. Those tribes had previously been too divided to pose a serious military threat to the Byzantines or the Persians. Now unified and animated by their new conversion to Islam, they comprised one of the most powerful states in the region. The first conflict between the Byzantines and Muslims was the Battle of Mu'tah in September 629. A small Muslim skirmishing force attacked the province of Arabia but were repulsed. Because the engagement was a Byzantine victory, there was no apparent reason to make changes to the military configuration of the region. Also, once the severity of the Muslim threat was realized, the Byzantines had little preceding battlefield experience with the Arabs, and even less with zealous soldiers united by a prophet. Even the Strategicon, a manual of war praised for the variety of enemies it covers, does not mention warfare against Arabs at any length. The following year the Muslims launched raids into the Arabah south of Lake Tiberias, taking Al Karak. Other raids penetrated into the Negev reaching as far as Gaza. The Battle of Yarmouk in 636 resulted in a crushing defeat for the larger Byzantine army; within three years, the Levant had been lost again. By the time of Heraclius' death in Constantinople, on February 11, 641, most of Egypt had fallen as well.

Map - Conquests of Prophet Muhammad and the Rashidun Caliphate, 630-641444 views

Map - 1135 AD Near East Between the 1st and 2nd Crusades444 views

Map - 500 AD380 views

Map - 1135 AD Europe and the Mediterranean352 views

Map - Byzantine-Sassanid Border 565 AD407 viewsThe frontier between the Roman and Sassanid Persian Empires at the death of Emperor Justinian I in 565 AD. It includes the provincial reorganization of 536 and Lazica.

Map - Byzantine-Sassanid Border 384 AD to Reign of Justinian I402 viewsThe frontier between the Roman and Sassanid Persian Empires after the treaty of 384 AD. Despite recurrent warfare, the frontier remained stable throughout the 5th century and until the reign of Justinian I.

Sassanian Empire 621 A.D.239 viewsThe Sasanian Persian Empire at its greatest extent, 621 A.D.

Map - Serbian Despotate in 1455 - 1459300 viewsSerbian Despotate in 1455 - 1459

Map - 525 AD South West Europe326 views

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