Historical Cartography of Europe, Physical Geography and Images
Euratlas is a website dedicated mainly to the historical geography of Europe but it offers also a world atlas and a wide collection of pictures in order to give a comprehensive view of history and geography.
Our continent is presented here as a wide cultural area limited north by degree 60, east by the Ural - Caspian - Zagros line, south by the Sahara and west by the Atlantic Ocean. Thus, on the Euratlas website you will find:
A physical atlas of Europe which makes it possible to easily locate the geographical position of the main mountains, rivers, cities and borders of this geographical area. These online maps are interactive finders: you simply need to click a name and its location will appear on the general map.
A periodical historical atlas of Europe: history of the European area in 21 maps. These maps are designed as a tool of reference and offer a general historical vision of the last two millennia in Europe, North Africa and Near East.
An online collection of antique maps of the 18th and 19th centuries, selected for the practical information provided like place names, roads, etc.
A Photos section offers more than 2000 pictures of European and Mediterranean towns, landmarks and landscapes. These images are freely distributable provided that the euratlas logo remains in place.
A clickable world atlas allowing the display of the 194 independent countries in the world with their main characteristics: long and short name in English and local language, area, population, capital etc. A separate page shows the special status territories, like Gaza, Transnistria, Karabagh, Kosovo etc. Moreover it is possible to display on the planisphere the major rivers and mountain ranges of the world with their main features: local name, length etc..
A map-by-map sequence of 21 cartographic snapshots showing the history of Europe as a whole. These history maps describe the European states as they were at the end of each century from year 1 to year 2000.
The Historical Atlas of the Ancient Orient offers 30 history maps of Southeastern Europe and Middle East in the Antiquity: 1 map per century from 300 B.C. until 3300 B.C.
Clickable city maps of antique Rome: the Seven Hills and Rome in year 100 with the the 14 regions or districts of the City, labelled and unlabelled. A reconstructed picture of goddess Roma is also shown.
An Europe map with the mountains, rivers, towns, and countries and the European Union borders. Each element can be highlighted by clicking. The Images page shows pictures of cities and landscapes of Europe.
A world map allowing the display of all the sovereign countries in the world with their English and local name, their capital, area, population and average life expectancy. The major rivers and mountains ranges of the world can be displayed too.
Digitized antique maps of European countries: Italy 1854, Ottoman Empire 1845, Post-Roads of Europe 1781, Egypt 1715, Austrian Netherlands 1777, Austria-Hungary 1900, the Thurn and Taxis map of the Holy Empire and many more.
The 1808 edition of the Atlas Historique, Chronologique et Géographique by Emmanuel de Las Cases, under the pseudonym of A. Le Sage. All the sheets are available and zoomable; text in French.
This medieval copy of a Roman map shows the earth as known in Antiquity. Here is a digitized real-size version of the Peutingerian Map with a direct access to each of the 11 scrolls.
A collection of more than 2000 wide pictures showing European and Mediterranean towns, landscapes and landmarks. These photographs are freely distributable if the euratlas logo remains in place.
A freely illustrated chronology of European history. For each century, some events are presented with a fast information and a free of rights picture that can be used as wallpaper.
History, geography and mapping digital products: Periodical Historical Atlas in high resolution, Atlas of Germany 1789, Hisatlas Historical and Political Atlas of the Modern Age, Georeferenced Historical Vector Data of Europe for 21 centuries...
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