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Map - 650 AD Byzantine Empire672 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)803 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 - Greek and Latin states in southern Greece, c. 121030 viewsPolitical map of southern Greece in c. 1210, after the establishment of the Crusader states following the Fourth Crusade.

After Constantinople was conquered during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Greece was divided among the Crusaders. The Latin Empire held Constantinople and Thrace, while Greece itself was divided into the Kingdom of Thessalonica, the Principality of Achaea, and the Duchy of Athens. The Venetians controlled the Duchy of the Archipelago in the Aegean, and the Despotate of Epirus was established as one of the three Byzantine Greek successor states. Michael VIII restored the empire in 1261, having also regained the Kingdom of Thessalonica. By his death in 1282, Michael had taken back the Aegean islands, Thessaly, Epirus, and most of Achaea, including the Crusader fortress of Mystras, which became the seat of a Byzantine despotate. However, Athens and the northern Peloponnese remained in Crusader hands. With the exception of the Ionian Islands and some isolated forts which remained in Venetian hands until the turn of the 19th century, the final end of the Frankokratia in the Greek lands came with the Ottoman conquest, chiefly in the 14th to 16th centuries.

Map - 842 AD Anatolia and the Byzantine-Arab Frontier Region582 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 Cilicia547 views

Map - 814 AD Europe769 views

Map - 843 - 870 AD The Division of the Carolingian Empire: Verdun 843 and Mersen, 870579 views

Map - 622 750 AD Age of the Caliphs598 views

Map - 1200 AD Anatolia457 viewsAD 1200 Anatolia

Map - 1300 AD Anatolia554 viewsAD 1300 Anatolia

Map - Seljuks of Rum499 viewshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum

Map - Asia Medieval Commerce538 views

Map - 1140 AD Asis Minor and the Crusader States401 views

Map - Decline of the March of Brandenburg under the Houses of Wittelsbach and Luxemburg332 views

Map - 1025 AD Byzantine Empire347 views

Map - 717 AD Byzantine Empire341 views

Map - 867 AD Byzantine Empire349 views

Map - 814 AD Europe and the Mediterranean424 views

Map - 1265 AD Byzantine Empire391 views

Map - 1355 AD Byzantine Empire509 views

Map - 1081 AD Byzantine Empire360 views

Map - 1400 AD Byzantine Empire536 viewsByzantine Empire 1400

Map - 1400 AD Byzantine Empire297 views

Map - 395 AD Byzantine Empire304 views

Map - 550 AD Byzantine Empire416 views

Map - 554 AD Byzantine Empire292 views

Map - 1180 AD Byzantine Empire340 views

Map - 1170 AD Byzantium Empire334 views

Map - 750 AD Islamic Califate308 views

Map - 814 AD Europe at the Death of Charles the Great359 views

Map - 1378 AD Central Europe284 views

Map - 1477 AD Central Europe331 views

Map - 1547 AD Central Europe348 views

Map - 1648 AD Central Europe279 views

Map - Spread of Christianity307 views

Map - LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS356 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 AD403 views

Map - 1205 - 1230 AD The Despotate of Epirus387 views

Map - 1700 AD Europe385 views

Map - 1000 AD Europe and the Byzantine Empire442 views

Map - 1142 AD Europe413 views

Map - 1360 AD Europe and the Mediterranean422 views

Map - 1550 AD Europe and the Mediterranean370 views

Map - 1560 AD Europe and the Mediterranean358 views

Map - 600 AD Europe and Eastern Roman Empire 333 views

Map - 650 AD Europe and the Mediterranean360 views

Map 526 AD Europe at the Death of Theoderic the Great30 viewsThird map (of four) from plate 19 of Professor G. Droysen's Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas, published by R. Andr�e. Plate is titled "Europa zur Zeit der V�lkerwanderung". This map is titled "Europa beim Tode Theoderichs d. Gr. (526)

Map - 1328 AD Europe and the Mediterranean332 views

Map - 1430 AD Europe and the Mediterannean313 views

Map - 1470 AD Europe and the Mediterannean275 views

Map - 1092 AD Europe260 views

Map - 1648 AD Europe and the Mediterranean269 views

Map - 1097 AD Europe and the Mediterranean 304 views

Map - 1190 AD Europe and the Mediterranean345 views

Map - 1190 AD Europe and the Mediterranean357 views

Map - 476-493 AD Europe in the Time of Odoacer369 views

Map - 900 AD The Peoples of Europe408 views

Map - 1097 AD Europe and the Mediterranean334 views

Map - 1154 Duchy of Aquitane328 viewsMedieval France 1154

Gepidia at its largest territorial extent94 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 Britain365 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 Italy332 viewsPolitical map of Italy in 1000 AD (CE).

Map - 1494 Italy374 viewsPolitical map of Italy in early 1494, before the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII of France.

Map - 1084 Italy and the Illyrian Coast503 viewsMap of Italy and the Illyrian coast in the year 1084.

MAP - 555 AD - Byzantine Empire Under Justinian419 viewsThe Eastern Roman Empire (red) and its vassals (pink) in 555 AD during the reign of Justinian I.

Map - German States, Brandenburg, 1320 A.D.27 viewsMap - German States, Brandenburg, 1320 A.D.

Map - Kingdom of Northumbria 802 AD43 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.

Map 1214 The Latin Empire24 viewsThe borders of the Latin Empire and Byzantine Empire after the 4th crusade (1204) up to the Treaty of Nymphaeum in 1214.

1204 AD The Latin Empire and Partition of the Byzantine Empire after the 4th Crusade, c. 1204.58 viewsThe Latin Empire and the Partition of the Byzantine Empire after the 4th crusade, c. 1204; borders are approximate.

Map - Barbarian Migrations369 views

Map - 1250 AD Medieval Europe in the 13th Century833 views1 comments

Map - 800 AD Mediterranean343 views

Map - 476 AD Mediterranean404 views

Map - Arab Invasion of Anatolia and Armenia, 637 - 638 AD455 viewsArab Invasion of Anatolia and Armenia, 637 - 638 AD

Map 635 AD Muslim-Byzantine troop movement519 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, 630-641460 views

Map - 1135 AD Near East Between the 1st and 2nd Crusades470 views

Map - 500 AD405 views

Map - 1135 AD Europe and the Mediterranean371 views

Map - Byzantine-Sassanid Border 565 AD420 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.

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