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Map - 650 AD Byzantine Empire815 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)887 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. 1210240 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 Region649 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 Cilicia610 views

Map - 814 AD Europe1034 views

Map - Italy 1796225 viewsMap of Italy in 1796.

Map - 843 - 870 AD The Division of the Carolingian Empire: Verdun 843 and Mersen, 870653 views

Map - 622 750 AD Age of the Caliphs854 views

Map - 1200 AD Anatolia529 viewsAD 1200 Anatolia

The Sultanate of R�m and surrounding states, c. 1200.446 viewsThe Sultanate of Rum seceded from the Seljuk Empire in 1077, with capitals first at Iznik and then at Konya. The name R�m derives from the Arabic name for Romans, ar-Rūm, itself a loan from Greek Pωμαῖοι, referring to the Greek people that had been ruled by the Romans (the Byzantines). They reached the height of power during the late 12th and early 13th century, when it succeeded in taking Byzantine ports on the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Trade from Iran and Central Asia was developed using caravans, and strong trade ties with the Genoese formed during this period. The increased wealth allowed the sultanate to absorb other Turkish states in eastern Anatolia (Danishmends, Mengujekids, Saltukids, Artuqids). They eventually succumbed to the Mongol invasion in 1243 (Battle of K�se Dağ), and became vassals of the Ilkhanate. Their power disintegrated during the second half of the 13th century. The last Seljuq sultans was murdered in 1308. The dissolution of the Seljuq state left behind small states, among them that of the Ottoman dynasty, which eventually conquered and reunited Anatolia to become the Ottoman Empire.

Map - 1300 AD Anatolia646 viewsAD 1300 Anatolia

Map - Seljuks of Rum563 viewshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum

Map - Asia Medieval Commerce720 views

Map - 1140 AD Asis Minor and the Crusader States451 views

Map - Decline of the March of Brandenburg under the Houses of Wittelsbach and Luxemburg370 views

Map - 1025 AD Byzantine Empire384 views

Map - 717 AD Byzantine Empire383 views

Map - 867 AD Byzantine Empire388 views

Map - 814 AD Europe and the Mediterranean468 views

Map - 1265 AD Byzantine Empire443 views

Map - 1355 AD Byzantine Empire579 views

Map - 1081 AD Byzantine Empire407 views

Map - 1400 AD Byzantine Empire609 viewsByzantine Empire 1400

Map - 1400 AD Byzantine Empire332 views

Map - 395 AD Byzantine Empire344 views

Map - 550 AD Byzantine Empire452 views

Map - 554 AD Byzantine Empire327 views

Map - 1180 AD Byzantine Empire376 views

Map - 1170 AD Byzantium Empire368 views

Map - 750 AD Islamic Califate339 views

Map - 814 AD Europe at the Death of Charles the Great386 views

Map - 1378 AD Central Europe318 views

Map - 1477 AD Central Europe360 views

Map - 1547 AD Central Europe374 views

Map - 1648 AD Central Europe309 views

Map - Spread of Christianity352 views

Map - LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS396 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 AD452 views

Map - 1205 - 1230 AD The Despotate of Epirus429 views

Map - 1700 AD Europe431 views

Map - 1000 AD Europe and the Byzantine Empire494 views

Map - 1142 AD Europe451 views

Map - 1360 AD Europe and the Mediterranean513 views

Map - 1550 AD Europe and the Mediterranean406 views

Map - 1560 AD Europe and the Mediterranean388 views

Map - 600 AD Europe and Eastern Roman Empire 378 views

Map - 650 AD Europe and the Mediterranean394 views

Map 526 AD Europe at the Death of Theoderic the Great110 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)