Medieval maps
Maps made in the Middle Ages, such as mappae mundi and portolan charts, and historical maps of the medieval world: Europe after the fall of Rome, Charlemagne's empire, the Crusades and the Holy Roman Empire.
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Mappae mundi
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Ravenna mappa mundi, c.650
1898 · Wikimedia Commons
Hereford Mappa Mundi Detail Africa
1280 · Wikimedia Commons
Mappemonde-Liber-floridus-BNF-fo-45
1260 · Wikimedia Commons
World map.
Wikimedia Commons
Ca. 1277 World Map
1277 · Wikimedia Commons
A map of the world - Latin Psalter (13th-15th C), f.9 - BL Add MS 28681
Wikimedia Commons
Cotton world map
Wikimedia Commons
Abbo of Fleury, Map of the world
1833 · Wikimedia Commons
Portolan charts
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Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, and the northwestern African coast.Attributed to the circle of Vesconte Maggiolo
c. 1550 · Wikimedia Commons
Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas.
1550 · Library of Congress
Nautical chart of the Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and part of Scandinavia. HM 1548. anonymous, PORTOLAN CHART (Italy, 15th century).I
1492 · Wikimedia Commons
(Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas with the west coast of Spain and Portugal)
1575 · Library of Congress
Portolan Mediterranean Sea ca 1600
c. 1600 · Wikimedia Commons
Nautical chart of the Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and part of Scandinavia. HM 1548. anonymous, PORTOLAN CHART (Italy, 15th century).M
1492 · Wikimedia Commons
(Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the coasts of Europe and northwest Africa).
Library of Congress
(Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea and western part of the Black Sea); (Portolan chart of the Aegean Sea and part of the Mediterranean Sea including Crete)
1640 · Library of Congress
Charlemagne's empire
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C. 814 Frankish Kingdoms
c. 1911 · Wikimedia Commons
Growth of Frankish Power, 481-814
1926 · Wikimedia Commons
F. W. Putzgers Historischer Schul-Atlas
3 sheets
RomanEmpire
1900 · Wikimedia Commons
Roman Empire full map
Wikimedia Commons
Roman Empire at the time of Emperor Constantine the Great, AD 306–337
1865 · Wikimedia Commons
Duchy of the Franks around 800
1895 · Wikimedia Commons
An historical map of Roman Empire and the neighbouring barbarous nations to the year of our Lord four hundred, when the empire began to be rent with foreign invasions. /. by Monsieur William Del Isle,
c. 1736 · New York Public Library
The Crusades
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C. 1140 Asia Minor and Crusader States
c. 1911 · Wikimedia Commons
C. 1097 Europe and Mediterranean Lands
c. 1911 · Wikimedia Commons
Asia Minor and the States of the Crusaders
1911 · 2 sheets
F.W. Putzgers Historischer Schul-Atlas: zur alten, mittleren und neuen Geschichte: in 66 Haupt- und 63 Nebenkarten
Wikimedia Commons
MACCOUN(1899) p195 66 A.D.-73 A.D. PALESTINE, TIME OF THE FINAL WAR WITH ROME
1899 · Wikimedia Commons
EB1911 - Map - Fig. 21.—Map illustrating Marino Sanuto’s Liber secretorum fidelium crucis
1911 · Wikimedia Commons
Palestine in the time of Jesus, 4 B.C. - 30 A.D. - (including the period of Herod, 40 - 4 B.C.)
1912 · Library of Congress
Medieval Europe
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C. 1190 Europe and Mediterranean Lands
c. 1911 · Wikimedia Commons
C. 1360 Europe and Western Asia
c. 1911 · Wikimedia Commons
Liber floridus, Map of Europe
Wikimedia Commons
C. 1254 Holy Roman Empire
c. 1911 · Wikimedia Commons
Nautical chart of the Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and part of Scandinavia. HM 1548. anonymous, PORTOLAN CHART (Italy, 15th century).A
1492 · Wikimedia Commons
C. 1378 Central Europe
c. 1911 · Wikimedia Commons
Nautical chart of the Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and part of Scandinavia. HM 1548. anonymous, PORTOLAN CHART (Italy, 15th century).P
1492 · Wikimedia Commons
F.W. Putzgers Historischer Schul-Atlas: zur alten, mittleren und neuen Geschichte: in 66 Haupt- und 63 Nebenkarten
Wikimedia Commons
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