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Map - 650 AD Byzantine Empire632 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)754 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 Region541 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 Cilicia502 views

Map - 814 AD Europe718 views

Map - 843 - 870 AD The Division of the Carolingian Empire: Verdun 843 and Mersen, 870539 views

Map - 622 750 AD Age of the Caliphs564 views

Map - 1200 AD Anatolia409 viewsAD 1200 Anatolia

Map - 1300 AD Anatolia503 viewsAD 1300 Anatolia

Map - Seljuks of Rum464 viewshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum

Map - Asia Medieval Commerce507 views

Map - 1140 AD Asis Minor and the Crusader States365 views

Map - Decline of the March of Brandenburg under the Houses of Wittelsbach and Luxemburg306 views

Map - 1025 AD Byzantine Empire319 views

Map - 717 AD Byzantine Empire309 views

Map - 867 AD Byzantine Empire323 views

Map - 814 AD Europe and the Mediterranean395 views

Map - 1265 AD Byzantine Empire354 views

Map - 1355 AD Byzantine Empire478 views

Map - 1081 AD Byzantine Empire320 views

Map - 1400 AD Byzantine Empire494 viewsByzantine Empire 1400

Map - 1400 AD Byzantine Empire272 views

Map - 395 AD Byzantine Empire278 views

Map - 550 AD Byzantine Empire387 views

Map - 554 AD Byzantine Empire267 views

Map - 1180 AD Byzantine Empire312 views

Map - 1170 AD Byzantium Empire304 views

Map - 750 AD Islamic Califate277 views

Map - 814 AD Europe at the Death of Charles the Great337 views

Map - 1378 AD Central Europe256 views

Map - 1477 AD Central Europe306 views

Map - 1547 AD Central Europe320 views

Map - 1648 AD Central Europe257 views

Map - Spread of Christianity281 views

Map - LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS326 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 AD370 views

Map - 1205 - 1230 AD The Despotate of Epirus352 views

Map - 1700 AD Europe342 views

Map - 1000 AD Europe and the Byzantine Empire408 views

Map - 1142 AD Europe379 views

Map - 1360 AD Europe and the Mediterranean391 views

Map - 1550 AD Europe and the Mediterranean332 views

Map - 1560 AD Europe and the Mediterranean332 views

Map - 600 AD Europe and Eastern Roman Empire 298 views

Map - 650 AD Europe and the Mediterranean323 views

Map - 1328 AD Europe and the Mediterranean303 views

Map - 1430 AD Europe and the Mediterannean277 views

Map - 1470 AD Europe and the Mediterannean242 views

Map - 1092 AD Europe234 views

Map - 1648 AD Europe and the Mediterranean238 views

Map - 1097 AD Europe and the Mediterranean 275 views

Map - 1190 AD Europe and the Mediterranean320 views

Map - 1190 AD Europe and the Mediterranean330 views

Map - 476-493 AD Europe in the Time of Odoacer337 views

Map - 900 AD The Peoples of Europe376 views

Map - 1097 AD Europe and the Mediterranean302 views

Map - 1154 Duchy of Aquitane295 viewsMedieval France 1154

Gepidia at its largest territorial extent26 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 Britain338 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 Italy305 viewsPolitical map of Italy in 1000 AD (CE).

Map - 1494 Italy348 viewsPolitical map of Italy in early 1494, before the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII of France.

Map - 1084 Italy and the Illyrian Coast469 viewsMap of Italy and the Illyrian coast in the year 1084.

MAP - 555 AD - Byzantine Empire Under Justinian378 viewsThe Eastern Roman Empire (red) and its vassals (pink) in 555 AD during the reign of Justinian I.

Map - Barbarian Migrations334 views

Map - 1250 AD Medieval Europe in the 13th Century785 views1 comments

Map - 800 AD Mediterranean307 views

Map - 476 AD Mediterranean365 views

Map - Arab Invasion of Anatolia and Armenia, 637 - 638 AD422 viewsArab Invasion of Anatolia and Armenia, 637 - 638 AD

Map 635 AD Muslim-Byzantine troop movement478 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, 630-641428 views

Map - 1135 AD Near East Between the 1st and 2nd Crusades424 views

Map - 500 AD365 views

Map - 1135 AD Europe and the Mediterranean336 views

Map - Byzantine-Sassanid Border 565 AD395 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 I392 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.215 viewsThe Sasanian Persian Empire at its greatest extent, 621 A.D.

Map - Serbian Despotate in 1455 - 1459282 viewsSerbian Despotate in 1455 - 1459

Map - 525 AD South West Europe313 views

Map - 1300 AD Trebizond Empire311 viewsMap of the Trebizond Empire in Anatolia, AD 1300

Map - 533-534 AD The Vandalic War368 viewsEnglish: Map of the operations of the Vandalic War in 533-534, including the rebellions on Tripolitania and Sardinia. Topography taken from from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain, other wise self-made. Sources: The History of the Wars by Procopius of Caesarea; J.B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire; James Allan Stewart Evans, The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power, ISBN 9780415022095; Ian Hughes, Belisarius: The Last Roman General, ISBN 9781594160851.

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