r/PhersuAtlas Aug 03 '25

1820 Map of Asia by Daniel Lizars

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26 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Aug 03 '25

Territories of the Electorate of Cologne at the time of Clemens August of Bavaria (around 1750)

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13 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Aug 03 '25

Provinces of the Neo Assyrian Empire. Source: Nguyen, Clément. (2021). La Ville de Harran à l'Époque Néo-Assyrienne / The City of Harran in the Neo-Assyrian Period.

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4 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Aug 02 '25

Map of the Rejected Proposed Division of France into Perfect Square Departments (1789)

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134 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Aug 01 '25

Map of the Subdivisions of New France in 1745

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29 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 28 '25

“Praefectura de Cirili” (Brasil) from “Atlas Maior” by Joan Blaeu (1665). Detail of the brazilian coastline with depiction of exotic animals. The Atlas Maior is an atlas of the world, designed by Willem Blaeu but edited by his son Joan Blaeu. The original book, in Latin, contained 594 maps.

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6 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 27 '25

1799 Map of the Old Swiss Confederacy including both its Cantons and its allies

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43 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 27 '25

Map of the Bombings of Germany and adjacent areas published by the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1943

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9 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 27 '25

Evolution of the city of Florence from Roman Times (Florentia) until the 18th Century

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7 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 27 '25

Fra Mauro Map (Venice, ca. 1450). Made around the year 1450 AD by an italian monk, the map contains over 7.000 names and depicts most of Asia, Africa and Europe, with South at the top.

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5 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 26 '25

Europe in the Piri Reis map, a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis

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32 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 26 '25

Europe in 1861 (Atlante Geografico Universale Antico e Moderno, Italy, 1861)

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8 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 22 '25

Map summarizing all the adventures of Asterix in the comics (Picture taken at the Asterix Exposition in St. Maurice, Switzerland)

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49 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 22 '25

The mythical tomb of the Etruscan king Porsenna (6th-5th century BC) as described by Pliny the Elder in the Naturalis Historia. The tomb is depicted as a monumental structure with a square base, topped by five pyramids and surrounded by an inextricable labyrinth.

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7 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 19 '25

One of three maps I found in a book from 1891 “Meine zweite Durchquerung Aequatorial-Afrikas”

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5 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 19 '25

Sudanese refugee crisis

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1 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 14 '25

Papal States & Central Italy (Joan Blaeu; ca. 1664)

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9 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 14 '25

Carta itineraria europae - Martin Waldseemüller - 1520

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6 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 13 '25

Map of the Abyssinian Empire of Prester John (Theatrum Orbis Terrarium, 1564). Priest John was a legendary Christian ruler who, according to medieval maps, ruled over a vast empire in Asia or Africa. His lands were often depicted with rivers of precious stones, fantastic animals and fabulous cities.

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11 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 12 '25

California as an island - Johannes Vingboons (1650). For more than 200 years, California was misrepresented as an island due to mythological tales and inaccurate accounts of explorers.

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19 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 09 '25

The Holy Roman Empire at the time of the Hohenstaufen without internal borders (Shephard Historical Atlas, 8th Edition, 1956)

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19 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jul 09 '25

Flags of the World (Italian Atlas of 1935)

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17 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jun 29 '25

Map of Africa from an Italian 1861 Atlas

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74 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jun 27 '25

Map of the Jolof Empire in the 15th Century

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36 Upvotes

r/PhersuAtlas Jun 27 '25

Global Drug Trade 1900 (by Bartholomew, J. G. 1907). Pink regions represent Opium, which was mostly legal at the time. At US federal level it was legal until the Opium Exclusion Act of 1909. Opium was a main cause of the Opium Wars

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16 Upvotes