World History Maps

Map Collections and Atlases

Cartografía histórica (Biblioteca virtual del Banco de la República - Bogota)
Historical Maps (Cultural Resources)
Historical Maps (German GenWeb Project)
Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
Istoriceskije karty (in Russian)
Istoriceskije karty (L. N. Gumilev and others; in Russian)
Map Collection (David Rumsey Map Collection)
Map Collection (Digital Library of the University of Missouri)
Map Collection (University of Texas - Austin)
Map Collections (The Library of Congress)
Mapping History (University of Oregon)
Maps (Archiving Early America)
Maps (Le Monde Diplomatique)
W. K. Morrison Special World Map Collection (Nova Scotia Community College)
World History: Maps (F. Smitha)
World War I – Maps (Trenches on the Web)
World War II - Maps (in Russian)
Atlante storico (Atlasmundi.com)
Atlas général d'histoire et de géographie (Vidal Lablache, 1912)
Atlas d'histoire et de géographie (Alain Huot)
Atlas histórico mundial
Atlas historique (Guillaume Balavoine)
Atlas historique de l'Antiquité tardive (Denis Bellemare)
Cambridge Modern History Atlas (1912)
Droysens Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas (1886)
Historical Atlas (William Shepherd, 1923-1926)
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century (Matthew White)
Military History Atlases (United States Military Academy’s Department of History)
Philips’ School Atlas of Classical Geography
Philips’ Graphic School Atlas (1895)
Public Schools Historical Atlas (C. Colbeck, 1905)
Putzgers Historischer Schul-Atlas (1923)
Tacitus Historical Atlas (Orjan Martinsson)
Times Survey Atlas of the World (J. Bartholomew, 1920)
The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography (Samuel Butler)
WHKMLA Historical Atlas (Alexander Ganse)

Regional Maps: Collections and Atlases

16th-Early 20th Century Maps of Africa (Northwestern University Libraries)
Africa Map Collection (University of Florida)
African Historical Maps (University of Cape Town Libraries Digital Collections)
L’Afrique en cartes (Gallica - Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Historical Maps of Africa (University of Alabama)
Historical Maps of Africa: The Cartographic Free Library (Afriterra)
Maps of Africa (African Studies - Columbia University Libraries)
Maps of Africa to 1900 (Digital Collections - Illinois University Library)
Old Maps of Africa (oldmapsonline.org)
Historical Maps of South America (New York Public Library)
Historical Maps of South America (University of Alabama)
Mapas históricos de America del Sur (Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay)
Old Maps of South America (oldmapsonline.org)
A Cartographic History of Caribbean History (caribmap.org)
Caribbean Atlas (University of Caen, Normandie)
Caribbean Map Collection (Digital Library of Caribbean)
Caribbean Map Collection (University of Florida)
Historical Maps of the Caribbean (University of Alabama)
Asia Maps: Digital Collections (Pardee School of Global Studies - Center for the Study of Asia)
Asia Maps Collection (University of Southern California)
Historical Atlas: Reconnecting Asia (Center for Strategic and International Studies(
Historical Maps of Asia (University of Alabama)
Historical Maps of Asia (John C. Huntington)
A Historical Atlas of South Asia (Joseph E. Schwartzberg, ed.)
Historical Maps of South Asia (Columbia University)
Maps for South Asian Studies (Yale University Library)
Silk Road Maps (Digital Silk Road Project - Japan)
Turkic World Maps

Regional Maps: Central and Eastern Europe

Mitteleuropa: Physikalische Übersicht
Central Europe in Carolingian Times (Droysens Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas, 1886)
Population of Central Europe around 900 (Putzgers Historischer Weltatlas, 1905)
Central Europe in the 15th Century (1477) (Putzgers Historischer Weltatlas, 1923)
Central Europe: Wars of Frederick the Great (Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912)
Central Europe on the Eve of the French Revolution (1786)
Central and Eastern Europe in 1795
Central Europe after the Peace of Basel and of Campo Formio (Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912)
Central Europe, 1801
Central Europe, 1803 (Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912)
Central Europe: Wars of the Third Coalition 1805-1807 (Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912)
Central Europe, 1809: The Austrian War (Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912)
French Empire and Central Europe, 1811 - Political Divisions (Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912)
Central Europe, 1812 (IEG-Maps)
Central Europe at the Height of Napoleonic Power (1812)
Central Europe, 1815-1866
Central Europe, 1848 (IEG-Maps)
Central Europe, 1867 (IEG-Maps)
Central Europe, 1871 (IEG-Maps)
Ethnographical Map of Central and South Eastern Europe, 1916 (British War Office)
Eastern Europe: Ethnic Map, 1920 (American Geographical Society Library)
Central Europe, 1944 - Allied Occupation Zones
Central Europe, 2000