Old maps

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
(Redirected from Historical maps)
Jump to: navigation, search

Contents
“Old maps” means maps authored over 70 years ago.skip

Old maps are included in the Wikimedia-logo.svg Wikimedia Atlas Gnome-globe.svg. The maps below should be included in the atlas.


For old maps of cities, see Old maps of cities.
For maps showing history, see Maps showing history.

World maps [edit]

  • Ebstorfer world map

  • World map from the Middle Ages

  • Part of Tabula Peutingeriana

  • World map by Johannes Kepler

  • Al-Idrisi's world map

  • Laurent Fries world map, 1522

  • Pedro de Medina & G.B. Pedrazano, 1554

  • by Jacques de Vaux (1583)

  • Ortelius world map (1570)

  • Oronce Fine(1536)

  • by Samuel de Champlain (1567?-1635)

  • by Jean Guérard (1627)

  • By Joan Blaeu (1664)

  • Capt Dampier's new voyage to New Holland (1699)

  • by Philippe Buache (1737)

  • by Pîrî Reîs

  • by Pîrî Reîs

  • Historical map of the international dateline

  • Antique World Map with magnetic declination by Leonhard Euler (1753)

  • (1902-1924)

  • Map of Asia with Finnish text from "Pieni Tietosanakirja" (1925)

See also [edit]

The Americas [edit]

  • Map of America by Sebastian Munster. 1561

  • Map of South America by Girolamo Ruscelli 1562

  • Map of America by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. 1565

  • Historical map of South America (1750)

  • Historical map of America. Ca. 1770

  • Historical map of the USA, Mexico and Central-America

  • Map of North and South America, French (18th century)

  • Mapa geographica completens Indiae Occidentalis

Caribbean and Central America [edit]

  • Barbados (1817)

  • Historical map of Central America (1860)

  • Historical map of Central America (1888)

  • Antilles. Map from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1890-1907

  • Historical map of the proposed Panama and Nicaragua canals

North America [edit]

  • Western part of the USA

  • Estern part of the USA

  • Captain Marcy's route though Texas (1854)

  • Oregon Trail (1907)

  • Historical map of the Hawaii-archipelago

  • Map of New Netherland and New England (around 1685)

  • New Holland map by William Dampier (1699)

  • Milton County, Georgia (1883)

  • Cherokee lands (1822)

  • Cherokee counties (1834)

  • Elizabeth City County (1895)

  • Norfolk County, Virginia (1895)

  • Princess Anne County, Virginia (1895)

  • North America (1797)

  • Map of "Greater America" (1899)

  • by Claude Bernou (16..-17..?)

  • Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova (1635)

South America [edit]

  • Map of Peru by Abraham Ortelius, 1608.

  • Historical map of Peru (1635)

  • Map of Peru. (1647). By Ioannem Ianssonium. (1558-1664).

  • Map of Peru by Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600-1667)

  • Map of Peru and the Amazonas River by Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600-1667)

  • Map of Peru by Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600-1667)

  • Map of Peru. 1683. French version

  • Map of Peru. 1683. Das Königreich Perou

  • Historical map of Peru by Herman Moll. Ca. 1720

  • Historical map of Peru by Emanuel Bowen. Ca. 1750

  • Historical map of Peru by Benard. Ca. 1750

  • Historical map of Peru by Rigobert Bonne. Ca. 1780

  • Historical map of South America by Diogo Homem. Ca 1558

Europe [edit]

  • Leo Belgicus - map of the Low Countries (1611)

  • Leo Belgicus by P. Kaerius & Hendrik Floris van Langren (1617)

  • Historical map of the Bay of Bajä (1888)

  • Historical map of the Stait of Messina (1888)

  • Historical map of Cyprus (1888)

  • Historical map of Madeira (1888)

  • Historical map of the Balkan peninsula (1888)

  • Historical map of the Balkans War Theatre during the First Balkan War (1912-13)

  • Historical map of the Kingdom of Hungary (1888)

  • Historical map of the Isle of Corsica (1888)

  • Historical map of Iceland (1888)

  • Straßenkarte für Rompilger (Erhard Etzlaub, um 1500)

  • Historical map of the area surrounding Toulon (1888)

  • Europe at the death of Charlemagne in 814

  • Eastern Europe (1836)

  • Historical map of Switzerland 1291-1515 (1912)

  • Historical map of Switzerland 1291-1515 (1912)
    [technical revised version]

  • Ottoman Empire, 1481-1683 (1923)

  • Carniola before 1900

  • Route of the leaders of the first Crusade (1911)

  • The Zeno Map (1558)

  • Carte ancienne de la Nouvelle-Zemble

  • Map of Europe with Finnish text from "Pieni Tietosanakirja" (1925)

  • Canary Islands map by William Dampier (1699)

Austria [edit]

Czech Republic [edit]

  • Historical map of Great Moravia under the rule of Svatopluk

  • Historical map of the Czech state in the 10th century under the rule of Boleslav I. and Boleslav II.

  • Historical map of the Czech Lands and other lands ruled by the King of Bohemia (turn of the 14th century)

  • Historical map of the Kingdom of Bohemia during the Hussite Wars (1419-34)

  • Historical map of the Czech Lands (14th century - 1742)

  • Historical map of the Czech Lands and other lands ruled by the King of Bohemia (reign of John of Bohemia)

  • Historical map of the Czech Lands and other lands ruled by the King of Bohemia (second half of the 14th century)

  • Historical map of the Czech Lands and other lands ruled by the King of Bohemia (beginning of the Thirty Years War)

  • Historical map of the Czech Lands as a part of the Habsburg ruled territories (16th century)

  • Historical map of the Czech Lands (from the half of the 18th century to the First World War)

  • Historical map of the Czech Lands (1892)

  • Historical map of the Czech lands and Slovakia (published in exile magazine La Nation Tchèque during the First World War)

  • Historical map of the Czech lands within the first Czechoslovak Republic in 1919 (published in Czech daily 'Svornost' in Chicago)

  • Historical map of the Czech lands within the first Czechoslovak Republic until 1928 (in 1928 Moravia and Czech Silesia were merged into one administrative unit - the Moravian-Silesian Land)

France [edit]

Germany [edit]

  • Magna Germania um 150 n. Chr. Kopie bzw. Rekonstruktion von Nicolaus Germanus (15. Jahrhundert) nach dem Text des Ptolemäus.

  • Grafschaft Mark (1681)

  • Upper Silesia (1746)

  • Grafschaft Mark (1791)

  • Oberamt Ravensburg (1834)

  • Historical geological map of Thuringia (1888)

  • Historical map of the area surrounding Wiesbaden (1888)

  • Historical map of the area surrounding Stuttgart (1888)

  • Historical map of the Kiel Canal (1888)

  • Historical map of Württemberg and Hohenzollern (1888)

  • Historical map of Brandenburg (1903)

  • Historical map of Westphalia (1888)

  • Historical map of Heligoland (1888)

  • Historical map of the area surrounding Kiel

  • Historical map of the area surrounding Potsdam

  • Historical map of the German Empire: General industry, mines and smelting industry

  • Historical map, Population density 1881

  • Historical map of the German Empire: Population density

  • Historical map of the German Empire: Historical maps 1

  • Historical map of the German Empire: Historical maps 2

  • Historical map, Religions 1881

  • Historical map of the German Empire: Religious denomination

  • Ancient Germania (1849)

  • Historical map of the German Empire: Agriculture

  • Historical map of the German Empire: Political map

  • Historical map of Prussia, before 1905

  • Baden before 1900

  • Rheinisch-Westfälischs Kohlen- und Industriegebiet (1886)

  • Province Saxony before 1918

  • Map of a part of North Rhine-Westphalia, (early 19th century) showing Ratingen, Wuppertal, Mülheim, Essen and Bochum

  • Map of the lower middle Ruhr Region, (early 19th century) showing south of Essen and Bochum in Germany.

  • Map of a part of Hamburg (Altona)

  • Historical map of territorial losses (the areas in black) of Germany after the 1919 Treaty of Versailles

Italy [edit]

  • Historical map of area surrounding Bozen (1888)

  • Historical map of area surrounding Meran (1888)

  • Historical map of the Isle of Capri (1888)

  • Historical map of the Isle of Sardinia (1888)

  • Historical map of La Spezia (1888)

  • Historical map of Trieste (1888)

See also [edit]

Poland [edit]

  • Upper Silesia (1746)

  • Western Governorships (of Russian Empire) and Polish Kingdom in 1902

  • English: Hydrography of Poland
    Polski: Hydrografia Polski
  • English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
  • English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
  • English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
  • English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
  • English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
  • English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
  • English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
  • English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna
  • English: Historical Map
    Polski: Mapa historyczna

  • Poland 1201-1241

  • Poland 1275-1300

  • Poland 1304-1333

  • Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 17th and 18th century

  • Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - administrative division

  • Poland in 1939

  • Poland between 1921 and 1939

Russia [edit]

  • Historical map of Russia (1725)

  • Historical map of the European part of Russia (1888)

  • Historical map of the Grand Duchy of Moscow (1888)

  • Historical map of the area surrounding St. Petersburg (1888)

  • Historical map of Russia

  • Historical map of Vladivostok when seized by the Czechoslovak Legions (29 June 1918)

Scandinavia [edit]

  • Historical map of Sweden and Norway (1888)

  • Historical map of the area surrounding Copenhagen (1888)

  • Historical map of the area surrounding Stockholm (1888)

Slovakia [edit]

  • Historical map of Slovakia (1921)

  • New railways in Slovakia (1932)

  • Historical map of the Upper Váh Basin (1933)

Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) [edit]

Turkey [edit]

  • History map of European Turkey

  • Historical map of the Bosporus

Gibraltar [edit]

  • Historical map of the promontory of Gibraltar (1888)

UK [edit]

  • Map of the County of Northumberland by Christopher & John Greenwood (1828)

  • Britannia Saxonica (1833)

  • Saxon England according to the Saxon Chronicle (1830)

  • Britannia Saxonica (1695)

see also [edit]

Category:Old Ordnance Survey map images

Middle East [edit]

  • Map of the empire of Alexander the Great

  • Hartmann Schedel: DESTRVCCIO IHEROSOLIME (from the Liber cronicarum, Nuremberg 1493)

  • The oldest printed prospect of Jerusalem - By Hartmann Schedel, Nürnberg 1493 (from the Liber cronicarum)

Asia [edit]

  • Historical map of Central Asia

  • Historical map of the Crimean peninsula (1888)

  • Historical map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (1888)

  • map of "Hindoostan" by Arrowsmith and Lewis (1812)

  • Tonking, Östl. Hinterindien, Hue, Ha-Noi

  • Map of French Indochina after the First World War

  • Political map of India after the First World War

  • Ethnographical map of High Asia in the beginning of 20th century

  • Old map of major glaciers of the Tian Shan

  • Map of railways in West Asia in the beginning of 20th century

China [edit]

  • Chinese Empire (aka Qing Dynasty), 1892, from the Encyclopædia Britannica North American edition

  • Qing Dynasty, History and Commercial Atlas of China, Harvard University Press 1905

  • Political map of China after the First World War

Japan [edit]

  • map on 18th century

  • map on 1911

Korea [edit]

Taiwan [edit]

  • The first 'correct' map of Taiwan in the world, which was drawn by a Dutch sailor (1625)

  • The Island Formosa and the Pescadores by Johannes Vingboons (ca 1640)

  • Historical map of Taiwan (1896)

Oceania [edit]

Melanesia [edit]

  • Historical map of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands

  • Spanish/Portuguese map ca.1600 of New Guinea and the Malay Archipelago

Africa [edit]

  • Map of Africa (1508)

  • Africae tabula nova (1570)

  • Map of Africa (1910s)

  • Map of Africa (1890)

  • Map of Africa (1812)

  • Map of Eastern Africa (1829)

  • Historical map of Zanzibar (1888)

  • Historical map of Cameroun

  • Historical map of Madagascar (1888)

  • Historical map of the gulf of Aden (1888)

  • The Gold Coast and Ashanti Confederacy (1896)

  • Map of the Great Rift Valley (1931)

Special maps [edit]

  • Language world map (1888)

  • Declination world map (1888)

  • Weather map for Europe (09. & 10 Dec 1887)

  • Synoptic chart of Europe and the North Atlantic, October 1874.

War maps [edit]

  • Historical map of the campaign by Breitenfeld (17.09.1631)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Lützen (16.11.1632)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Fehrbellin (28.06.1675)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Höchstädt (13.08.1704)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Hohenfriedeberg (04.06.1745)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Kolin (18.06.1757)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Roßbach(05.11.1757)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Leuthen(05.12.1757)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Hochkirch (14.10.1758)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Kunersdorf (12.08.1759)

  • Mannheim (1794)

  • Battle of Marengo (1800)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Austerlitz (02.12.1805)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Jena (14.10.1806)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Auerstädt (14.10.1806)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Aspern (12.05.1809)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Wagram (05. & 06.07.1809)

  • Historical map of the battle of the nations by Leipzig (16.10.1813)

  • Historical map of the battle of the nations by Leipzig (18.10.1813)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Waterloo (18.06.1815)

  • Historical map of the siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Solferino (24.06.1859)

  • Battle of Pea Ridge (1862)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Königgrätz (03.07.1866)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Wörth(06.08.1870)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Sedan (01.09.1870)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Orléans (Dec 1870)

  • Historical map of the campaign by Plewen (11. & 12.09.1877)

Retrieved from "http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_maps&oldid=94820410"