Historical atlas

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The introductions of the country, dependency and region entries are in the native languages and in English. The other introductions are in English.

Historical atlas

Historical atlas Historical atlas - the entries The historical atlas consists both of the sections with maps of the history in the various country and continent entries as well as the following entries:

Worldwide

• Historical atlas of the world

International organizations

• International organizations
• European Union

Historical atlas by time period

• Prehistory
• Antiquity
• Middle Ages
• Rise of Islam
• Age of Renaissance
• Early Modern Age
• 20th Century

Historical atlas by themes

• Early Asian Societies
• Rise of Islam
• Age of Renaissance
• Early Modern Age
• 20th Century

Historical nations and territories

A list of historical nations and territories can be found in the Index of the atlas.

Old names of present countries

• Burma = Myanmar
• Dahomey = Benin
• Ivory Coast = Côte d'Ivoire
• Khmer = Cambodia
• Upper-Volta = Burkina Faso
• West Samoa = Samoa
• Zaïre = Congo (Democratic Republic)

Historical dependencies

Only dependencies from which the names have been changed are listed:

• Aden, see Yemen
• Afar and Issaland, see Djibouti
• Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, see Sudan
• Austrian Netherlands, see Belgium
• Basutoland, see Lesotho
• Bechuanaland, see Botswana
• Belgian Congo, see Congo (Democratic Republic)
• British Bechuanaland, see South Africa
• British Guiana, see Guyana
• British Honduras, see Belize
• British India, see India and other
• British New Guinea, see Papua New Guinea
• British North Borneo, see Malaysia
• British Solomon Islands, see Solomon Islands
• British Somaliland, see Somaliland
• British West Indies
• Cape Colony, see South Africa
• Ceylon, see - Sri Lanka
• Dahomey, see Benin
• Danish Virgin Islands, see United States Virgin Islands
• East Pakistan, see Banglades
• Ellice Islands, see Tuvalu
• Formosa, see China (Republic)
• French Congo, see Congo (Republic)
• French Guinea, see Guinea
• French Indo-China, see Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
• French Somaliland, see Djibouti
• French Sudan, see Mali
• German South-West Africa, see Namibia
• German East Africa, see Tanzania
• Gilbert Islands, see Kiribati
• Gold Coast, see Ghana
• Italian East Africa, see Eritrea and Somalia
• Italian Somaliland, see Somalia
• La Plate, see Argentina
• Louisiana, see United States
• Malaya, see Malaysia
• Natal, see South Africa
• Netherlands Brazil, see Brazil
• Netherlands Guiana, see Suriname
• Netherlands Indies, see Indonesia
• Netherlands New Guinea, see Indonesia
• New France, see Canada
• New Granada, see Colombia
• New Hebrides, see Vanuatu
• New Netherland, see United States
• New Spain, see Mexico
• New Sweden, see United States
• Northern Rhodesia, see Zambia
• Nyassaland, see Malawi
• Oubangi-Chari, see Central African Republic
• Papua, see Papua New Guinea
• Portuguese East Africa, see Mozambique
• Portuguese Guinea, see Guinea-Bissau
• Portuguese India, see Atlas of India
• Portuguese Timor, see East Timor
• Portuguese West Africa, see Angola
• South Arabia, see Yemen
• Southern Rhodesia, see Zimbabwe
• Spanish Guinea, see Equatorial Guinea
• Spanish Netherlands, see Belgium
• Spanish Sahara, see Western Sahara
• Transvaal, see South Africa
• Trucial Oman, see United Arab Emirates
• Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau
• Urundi, see Burundi -
• Zanzibar, see Tanzania

Notes and references

General remarks: The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references. Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections. Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries. The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned. The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.