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Putting the World on the Map as a Historian, a Cartographer, an Editor...

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History, maps, and immigrants: A different U.S. immigration map proposed as a souvenir map from the U.S. Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels Universal and International Exhibition.
#USA #land #people #immigration #immigrants #map #Belgium

04.10.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and borders: A map of Lower Canada, 1835 (published by Walton & Gaylord, Stanstead, 1835)
#map #history #carte #histoire #Quebec #Canada #England #Britain #UK

23.06.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and wars: An Authentic Plan of the River St. Laurence from Sillery to the Fall of Montmorenci, with the Operations of the Siege of Quebec under the Command of Vice-Admiral Saunders & Major General Wolfe, 1759 (Thomas Jefferys, London, 1759)
#map #carte #Quebec #Canada #Britain #UK

23.06.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and wars: A German map of the Operation Barbarossa (made by the Bundeswehr's historians)
#map #history #historical #war #invasion #Germany #Russia #Ukraine #Poland #Romania #Hungary #Finland #Slovakia

22.06.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and minerals...: An economic map of Iran in the 1980s (from Atlas of the Middle East, New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1988)
#map #economy #industries #oil #minerals #Iran #USA #Israel #Palestine

19.06.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, #maps, and lands: A map of Province of Quebec, Canada, 1900 (published by the Department of Lands, Forests, and Fisheries of the Province of Quebec, Quebec City, Canada, 1900)
#map #carte #Quebec #Canada #Montreal #Sherbrooke #Ottawa

18.06.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and languages: An ethnolinguistic map of Iran

17.06.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Cuba: ''Why Not?'' (United States and territories: how we grow, a duplicate of an interesting official map recently issued by the U.S. government); a #map published by #American Lithographic Co., #NewYork, 1898.
#maps #history #territorial #expansion #Trump #Greeland #Panama #Canada #Mexico #USA

17.06.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, #maps, and borders: ''#Persia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan'' (published by The Americana Company, 1904)
#map #geography #war #borders #Iran #Tehran #Baluchistan #Iraq #Palestine #Israel #Arabia #Syria #Turkiye #Armenia #Azerbaijan #Georgia #Russia #Afghanistan #Pakistan #India #China

16.06.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, #maps, & lands: The Territorial Claims of #Persia (Paris Peace Conference, France, 1919)
(for a better version: edmaps.com/html/persia_...)
#map #Iran #history #geography #war #borders #empire #Iraq #Palestine #Israel #Arabia #Syria #Turkiye #Egypt #Armenia #Russia #Azerbaijan #Georgia

15.06.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, #maps, and empires: Historical map of #Iran under the Safavi Dynasty in the 16th and 17th centuries (Sahab Geographic & Drafting Inst., #Tehran, 1970)
#map #history #war #Persia #Iraq #Palestine #Israel #Arabia #Syria #Turkiye #Armenia #Azerbaijan #Georgia #Turkmenistan #Afghanistan

15.06.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, #maps, and borders: The Viceroyalty of New Spain, 1786-1821 (The twelve intendancies and the governmental divisions of New California, Old California, New Mexico, and Tlaxcala)
#map #Mexico #Spain #California #Texas #USA #borders #History

08.06.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, #maps, and #immigrants: Where each U.S. state's largest immigrant population was born, 1920 and 2022 (Source: Pew Research Center, 2024)
#map #USA #Mexico #Guatemala #Honduras #Cuba #Canada #India #ElSalvador #Brazil #Jamaica #Britain #UK #Germany #Russia #Italy #Trump #Vance #California

08.06.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, #maps, and nations: The New Europe in 1919 (La Nouvelle #Europe en 1919), a map published by Eiggimann & Co., #Geneva, #Switzerland, 1919.
When #Russia is Muscovy (Moscovie) and #Ukraine, #Belarus (White Ruthenia), and #Armenia are sovereign nations...
#map #history #carte #histoire #WWI

06.06.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ephemeral maps: ''Vast Russian Territory Taken by Germany and Austria'' (The Sun, February 20, 1918)
Eastern Europe, WWI: Territorial situation in February 1918, after the signature of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Ukraine and the Central Powers.

05.06.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and nations: A concise #map of #Cyprus and its religious division (from A. Birken, Atlas of #Islam, 2010)
#atlas #history #historical #religion #Christian #Orthodox #Muslim #Jewish #Greece #Greek #Turkiye #Turkish #Britain #UK #British #Famagusta #Larnaca #Limassol #Nikosia #Akrotiri

04.06.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, #maps, and letters: A Nazi map illustrating one of the infamous Nuremberg Race Laws (Stuttgart, 1938)
Gothic is used within the German national borders (after the annexation of Austria) and towards the reader, while signs in Roman address the bordering countries. (Waldeck & Leoussi, 2024)

03.06.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and lands: A map of the State of Palestine (according to The New Atlas of the Arab World, Cairo-New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2010)
#map #Palestine #Egypt #Israel #Jordan #Gaza #Jerusalem #Cisjordan #Hebron #Bethlehem #Ramallah #Nablus #Jenin #Rafah

01.06.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and lands: ''Ethnographical map of Russia in the 19th Century'' (from A. Rambaud, The history of Russia from the earliest times to 1877, vol. 2, New York, J. B. Alden, 1886)
#ethnographic #map #history #territory #expansion #imperialism #Russia #Russians #Ukraine #Ukrainians

01.06.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and lands: ''Map of the territorial acquisitions of Russia under #Peter the Great and his successors'' (from A. Rambaud, The history of Russia from the earliest times to 1877, vol. 2, New York, J. B. Alden, 1886)
#map #history #territory #expansion #imperialism #Russia #Ukraine

01.06.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and lands: ''Map of the formation of the Tsarate of Muscovy'' or ''Russia before #Russia'' (A. Rambaud, A popular #history of Russia: from the earliest times to 1880, vol. 1, #Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1880)
#map #Ukraine #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Belarus #Kiev #Moscow #Baltic

01.06.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, religions, and maps: ''#Christian Percentage of Population - Eastern Asia''
#map #China #Beijing #Shanghai #Taiwan #Taipei #Japan #Tokyo #Korea #Seoul #Mongolia #Chinese #ethnic #Buddhist #Muslim #Islam

30.05.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, peoples, and maps: An ethnographic map of Central Europe (''Peoples of Central Europe'' - H. Thomas, W. Hamm, Modern Europe, Holt, New York, 1934), where all the Czechs are Slovaks and all the Ukrainians are Russians...
#map #ethnographic #Germany #Austria #Poland #Ukraine #Russia

29.05.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, maps, and imagination: Australia in the 1830s (according to Thomas John Maslen, The friend of Australia or, a plan for exploring the interior and carrying on a survey of the whole continent of Australia, 1830).
#map #Australia #England #Britain

28.05.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, wine, and #maps: An #American map of France's wine regions
#map #wine #France #Europe #Macron #Seattle #USA #grapes #sparkling #white #rose #red #dessert #Paris #Bordeaux #champagne #Beaujolais #Sauvignon #Pinot #Burgundy #Chardonnay #Cabernet #Riesling

23.05.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, ethnicities, and #maps: ''A map of the territorial distribution of the Mountain Peoples of the #Caucasus before the #Russian conquest'' versus ''A map of the present-day distribution of the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus (after the Russian conquest...).''
#map #Russia

22.05.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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History, ethnicities, and war alliances: A #map of the "subject nationalities of the German Alliance" (from Subject Nationalities of the German Alliance, London-New York-Toronto-Melbourne, Cassell and Co., 1917)
#ethnographic #ethnic #war #WWI #Germany #France #Italy #Hungary #Russia #Ukraine

21.05.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Speaking about La JournΓ©e nationale des Patriotes (National Patriots' Day), let's enjoy a map of Lower Canada (Bas-Canada) during the Rebellions of 1837–1838...
#map #Canada #Quebec #Montreal #Maine #NewBrunswick #Patriotes #Patriots

19.05.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Speaking about #Russia & Europe, a bit of Russian #history from the Russian archives: The German original pages of the German-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Border Between the USSR & #Germany (28 sept. 1939)
#Poland #Latvia #Lithuania #Estonia #WWII #war #Putin #Stalin
(prlib.ru/en/node/1322...)

18.05.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bucharest (#Romania)-Chisinau/Kishinev (#Moldova)-Odessa (#Ukraine)-Sevastopol (Russian-occupied Crimea): Understanding the Romanian presidential elections with two Russian-made maps of the Russian ''special military operation'' in Ukraine
#GeorgeSimion #NicusorDan #war #Putin #Zelenskyy #Russia

18.05.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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