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Maps and Images

Guide to Contents

The section of the Sourcebook is devoted to copy-permitted maps and images. These images can be used in teaching, and in web page creation. The source of images is indicated for each image.

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• Medieval Map Quiz
  Try this simple map quiz.

• WEB Mapping Past Societies (Formerly, the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations) [Harvard]
  A major website and resource. Not simply maps but interactive digital maps presenting all kinds of information.
• WEB Historia Cartarum: Medieval Maps and Mapping Resources
• WEB Euratlas: Historical Maps [Euratlas]
• Altorient: Historical Atlas of the Ancient Orient - 300 BC until 3300 BC [Euratlas]
• Periodis Web: A Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000 [Euratlas]
• HisatlasWeb: Historical and Political Maps [Euratlas]
• Time Pictures of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin from 2nd Century BC to 20th Century [Euratlas]
• WEB THE COMPLETE TABULA PEUTINGERIANA - a Roman Road Map compared with a modern map [Euratlas]
  Drawn in 1265 by a monk from Colmar and made up of 11 parchments scrolls measuring approximately 34 cm high by 6,74 m. long when assembled.
  

General

• Europe: Outline Map(BW)
• Europe on the Eve of the Barbarian Invasions, 395 (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)
• Europe, 476, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Europe, 526, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Europe, 600, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Europe, 800, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Europe, 900, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Europe, 1099(Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Europe, 1360, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Europe, 1519, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

Rome

• The Western Empire, 395 (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

Byzantium

• The Eastern Empire, 395 (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Byzantium: The Theme System (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Fourth Crusade, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Constantinople (Col)
• Constantinople, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

Islam

• Satellite Map of the Middle East (source unknown)  [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• The Middle East in the Sixth Century, from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• Muslim Expansion in the Time of Muhammad from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• Map of Muslim Expansion until A.D. 661, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Growth of Muslim Power: First 25 Years (BW)  [At Medieval Sourcebook] Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)
• Muslim Expansion in the West in the Umayyad Period (661-750), from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Muslim Empire: 750 CE (BW) Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)  [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• The Abbasid Caliphate (786-809) from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Mediterranean in the Ninth Century from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Late Abbasid Caliphate c .900 CE, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Muslim World c. 1300CE, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Muslim World c. 1500CE, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Middle East in the Nineteenth Century, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]

Spain

• The Umayyad Caliphate in the Second Half of the 9th and the Second Half of the 10th Centuries  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• Spain after the Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate in the Periods of the Party Kings and of the Almoravids  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• Spain in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Reconquest by the Christian Kingdoms of the North. The Kingdom of Granada [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]

Persia

• The Muslim East in the First Half of the 13th Century  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Later Timurid Period; and Map of Safawid Persia in the 16th and 17th Centuries  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]

Turks: Seljuqs and Ottomans

• Map of Almoravid, Saldjuk, and Ghaznavid Expansion c.1100CE, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981) [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• Growth of the Ottoman Empire From the Early 14th Century till 1512  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Ottoman Sultanate in the 16th and 17th Centuries  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• The Ottoman Empire: 1556 (BW) Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922) 

India and Far East

• Map of the Sultanates of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]

Merovingians and Carolingians

• Frankish Domains 511-561 (BW)
  Source: Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, trans. Ernest Brehaut,(New York: Columbia University Press, 1916)
• Frankish Domains at Time of Charles Martel (BW)
  Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)
• Europe at Death of Charlemagne, 814 (BW)
  Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)
• The Division of the Carolingian Empire: Verdun 843 and Mersen, 870 (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

Crusades

• The First Crusade, 1099(Col)
  A clickable map of all of Europe in 1099
  Source: Adaptation of "Europe at the time of the First Crusade", in Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• The Crusader States in the Early 12th Century (BW)
  Source: George Richard Potter, The Autobiography of Ousama, (New York: 1929 [copyright seems to be expired])
• Crusader States, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Jerusalem, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Second and Third Crusades, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• The Empire of Sultan Salah Al-Din(1171-1193) and the Crusaders' Principalities in Syria and Palestine  [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
• Fourth Crusade, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

Growth of European States

• GERMANY/HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
  • Germany, c. 962, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Germany Under Frederick Barbarossa, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• ITALY
  • Italy in the 11th Century, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Italy in the 12th and 13th Centuries, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • North and Central Italy during the Renaissance, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• FRANCE
  • France in 1032, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • The Growth of the French Royal Domain, 1182-1350 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • France at the Treaty of Bretigny, 1360 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • France at Height of English Power, 1429 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • France in the Late 15th Century, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• ENGLAND/BRITISH ISLES
  • The Angevin Empire, c. 1174 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Medieval England, c. 1399, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Medieval London, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Wales in the 13th Century, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
  • Spain: the Reconquista, 1037-1270, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Iberia, 1492, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• OTHER STATES
  • The Hanseatic League, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • The Baltic Region in the Later Middle Ages, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • The Low Countries in the late 15th Century, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

The Mongols

• The Mongol Empire at the Death of Genghis Khan, 1227 (BW)
  Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)
• The Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

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