Mainly because sources and data are missing until the 15th or 16th century and it would have been inconsistent to draw the first 16 centuries at an interval of 100 years and the centuries close to our time at an interval of 20 years.ĩ) Don't you understand a lot of history is left out when one only sees the beginning of each century?Ī lot of information may have been left out but the result of every time sequence is shown. Everyone considers the facts according to his own vision of the world.Ĩ) Why haven't you chosen an interval of 20 years at least? In some European countries, 1918 is a very important date, other countries give more importance to 1920 or 1926 for instance. Actually, there is no objective criterion to define what was important in history from what was not. The notion of importance results of an interpretation of the past events. Moreover you will find a large part of the requested information in the World Historical Maps Hisatlas pages.ħ) Why are you skipping from 1900 to 2000, missing so many important maps? We don't mean these interpretations are wrong, we only mean that the value of an interpretation lies in its consequences and we are precisely showing the consequences of each century, as far as they change borders. The notions of 'Bourgeois Revolution', 'Interwar period', 'Nazi occupation' or 'Cold War' are interpretations of history. Or add 1850, 1920 (Interwar period after Versailles Treaty), 1942 (Nazi occupation), 1950 (Cold War until 1989)? No, but everyone, who has some knowledge in digital cartography and geographical information systems (GIS) can purchase our Georeferenced Historical Vector Data 1800, 1900 or 2000 and draw his own maps for the desired years.Ħ) Why don't you introduce a tighter rhythm in the last 200 years in order to show the Bourgeois Revolutions of 1848 and especially their consequences in the 20th Century. Do you have maps in the same scale and pattern dated 1850, 1914, 1918, 1937, for example? Actually, everyone, with some knowledge in digital cartography and geographical information systems (GIS) can purchase our Georeferenced Historical Vector Data 1900 and draw his own maps.ĥ) Your maps depict country borders at the beginning of each century.

There are other persons who are convinced that 19 or 1929 would be the right years. There are persons who feel that maps for 19 would be good. There is no Euratlas Periodis map for for either 1918 or 1939.Ĥ) Don't you agree that maps of 1918 or 1921 would be useful?

We are not in position to judge which is which but we just describe the results each 100 years.Ģ) But the maps are of the years 1800-1900 why not 1804 or 1943?Įxactly, the Euratlas Periodis maps do show only the political situation of an area encompassing the main part of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, at the very end of each century, from AD 1 to AD 2000.

Some changes are important, others are not. 1) A lot has happened in the intervals that doesn’t appear on the map.Ī lot of changes are always and still happening everywhere in the world.

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