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OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain. Learn More. Start Mapping. OpenHistoricalMap collaboratively stores and displays map data throughout the history of the world.
With the Age of Discovery, during the 15th to 18th centuries, world maps became increasingly accurate; exploration of Antarctica, Australia, and the interior of Africa by western mapmakers was left to the 19th and early 20th century.
World map 1400 AD. 1400 AD Kingdom of Maracca was Founded-The Kingdom of Malacca was founded on the Malay peninsular in the current day Indonesia. Malacca, which was founded by Paramesvara, soon became the leading maritime power in South East Asia.
Interactive detailed political map from ancient times to our days. Empires, kingdoms, principalities, republics.
3 lis 2020 · The British Library is making available 40,000 maps dating between 1500 and 1824, which will be freely available online for the first time. They are part of the Topographical Collection of King George III (K. Top), and included maps, atlases, architectural drawings, cartoons and watercolours.
This collection of early printed maps of the world offers snapshots of a world that was largely unknown at the time many of the maps were made. For most people, then, familiar territory encompassed not much more than a neighborhood. Travelers were few, and even sailors crept along the coastlines.
This exhibition presents many of the most historically significant manuscript maps from the late medieval and early modern period from the Beinecke Library’s vast collection of maps.
