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Map of Leuven Lovanivum Vulgo Loven (title on object), maps of cities, Leuven, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1581 and/or 1682, paper, etching, h 345 mm × w 488 mm

The Carta Marina (Latin 'map of the sea'), created by Olaus Magnus in the 16th century, is the earliest map of the Nordic countries that gives details and placenames. The map was created in Rome by the Swedish ecclesiastic Olaus Magnus (1490‚Äì1557),

Map of Louisiana (Mississippi), Johann Baptista Homann, 1664 – 1724, Etching and engraving, hand-colored, on white laid paper, Map of Louisiana shows the Eastern part of the United States up to Canada; different colors are used for Louisiana (green), Eastern States (yellow), New Mexico (pink) and Canada (pink). On upper left corner, title of map embellished with an allegorical figure; below view of Niagara Falls. In lower right corner, a vignette with the coat-of-arms of Lns. Gall Societatis Indiae Occidentalis and below and Indian man and woman with a bull. (OPB '59), Germany, after 1718, ephemera, Print, Print

Map of the Vatican Belvedere gardens Pianta and alzata del giardino di Belvedere del Palazzo Pontificioin Vaticano (title on object) Gardens in Rome (series title) Li giardini di Roma / con le loro piante alzate / e vedute in prospettiva (series title), Map of the Vatican Belvedere gardens. Top left a cartouche with an explanatory list of numbers. Top right a cartouche with title and text, garden, plan, map of garden, Vatican City, Giovanni Battista Falda (mentioned on object), 1683, paper, etching, h 301 mm × w 305 mm

Artist: Johann-Baptista Homann, German, 1664–1724, Map of Vienna, ca. 1702, Colored engraving, platemark: 48.6 × 57.7 cm (19 1/8 × 22 11/16 in.), Made in Germany, German, 17th century, Works on Paper - Prints

Map of Berkshire County, England.

Korea: Political map of Korea from the Ch'onha Chido Atlas showing the 8 administrative regions or provinces (indicated by red circles), pen and ink on rice paper, Joseon Dynasty, c. 1800

China: Karte der Konzessionsgebiete in Tientsin (Map of the Foreign Concessions in Tianjin), US Army Map Services, Washington DC, 1945, corrected and colourised by Maximilian Dorrbecker. Khu'hamgaba Kitap (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Europae (From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum) by Ortelius, Abraham (1527-1598) / Private Collection / 1579 / The Netherlands / Copper engraving, watercolour / History / 34x45,7 / Cartography

Spain/Catalonia: The Kingdom of the 'Antichrist' as represented in the Catalan Atlas, by the Jewish illustrator Cresques Abraham, 1375

Spain/Catalonia: Israel, Palestine and Jordan as represented in the Catalan Atlas, by the Jewish illustrator Cresques Abraham, 1375

Spain/Catalonia: Egypt, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the Black Sea (inverted) as represented in the Catalan Atlas, by the Jewish illustrator Cresques Abraham, 1375

Egypt: Map of the world (south to the top), said to be the oldest rectangular map of the world, Kitab Ghara'ib al-funun wa-mulah al-'uyun ('The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes'), 12th-13th Centuries

The Cantino planisphere (or Cantino World Map) is the earliest surviving map showing Portuguese Discoveries in the east and west. It is named after Alberto Cantino, an agent for the Duke of Ferrara, who successfully smuggled it from Portugal to Italy in 1502. The map is particularly notable for portraying a fragmentary record of the Brazilian coast, discovered in 1500 by the Portuguese explorer Pedro √Ålvares Cabral who conjectured that he had landed on a continent previously unknown to Europeans

Japan: 'Feudal Map of Japan Before Sekigahara' (1600), A History of Japan during the century of early foreign intercourse (1542-1651), James Murdoch and Isoh Yamagata, 1903

Plan of the garden and vineyard of Pope Sixtus V and the garden of Cardinal Paolo Savelli Pianta and alzata del giardino and vigna di Papa Sisto V hoggi dell'emm.mo principle il sig. cardinal Paolo Savelli Peretti (title on object) Gardens in Rome (series title) Li giardini di Roma / con le loro piante alzate / e vedute in prospettiva (series title), Plan of the garden and vineyard of pope Sixtus V and the garden of Cardinal Paolo Savelli. In the bottom margin the title and an explanatory list of numbers, garden, vineyard, Italy, Domenico Fontana, Paolo Savelli, Giovanni Battista Falda, 1683, paper, etching, h 279 mm × w 444 mm

Tourist map of Tasmania ca. 1932 - - Mandatory Photo Credit: TAHO.

Portuguese explorer Prince Henry, known as the Navigator, was the first European to methodically explore Africa and the oceanic route to the Indies. From his residence in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, he directed successive expeditions to circumnavigate Africa and reach India. In 1420, Henry sent an expedition to secure the uninhabited but strategic island of Madeira. In 1425, he tried to secure the Canary Islands as well, but these were already under firm Castilian control. In 1431, another Portuguese expedition reached and annexed the Azores.

A Collection of Surveys of Scottish Estates of the Earl of Selkirk: Bombie Mill, Bombie, Tongue of Bombie, unknown artist, undated, Graphite, watercolor, gray wash, pen and brown ink on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper, Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 inches (24.1 × 33 cm), architectural subject

Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (坤輿萬國全圖) was printed by Matteo Ricci upon request of Wanli Emperor in Beijing, 1602. Ricci's Chinese collaborators were Zhong Wentao and Li Zhizao. The map was crucial in expanding Chinese knowledge of the world. It was later exported to Japan and was influential there as well.

A Plan of Part of the Ancient City of Westminster, from College Street to Whitehall, and from the Thames to St. James's Park, in which are laid down all the New Streets that have been built & other alterations made since the building of Westminster Bridge, unknown artist, eighteenth century, printed 1740, drawn ca. 1760, Line engraving marked with pen and black ink, blue wash, and graphite on moderately thick, sligthly textured, cream laid paper with one fold mark, Sheet: 20 15/16 × 28 3/4 inches (53.2 × 73 cm), architectural subject, city planning, coronation, plan (formal concept), City of Westminster, England, London, Palace of Westminster, United Kingdom, Westminster Abbey

Der gantze Welt Kreis in seinen zwey grossen Begriffen als 1 dem Neueren und 2 dem Alteren ca. 1665-1714 Credit: UBC Library

Spain/Catalonia: Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean, as represented in the Catalan Atlas, by the Jewish illustrator Cresques Abraham, 1375

The Atlas Maior is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and around 3000 pages of text. It was the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. Earlier, much smaller versions, titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus, were published from 1634 onwards.

The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under direct British control as a crown colony on 1 April 1867. The colony was dissolved in 1946 as part of the British reorganisation of its South-East Asian dependencies following the end of the Second World War. The Straits Settlements consisted of the four individual settlements of Malacca, Dinding, Penang (also known as Prince of Wales Island), Singapore (with Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands). The island of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo, was also incorporated into the colony with effect from 1 January 1907, becoming a separate settlement within it in 1912. With the exception of Singapore, Christmas Island, and the Cocos Islands, these territories now form part of Malaysia.

Floor plan of the garden of Duke Girolamo Mattei Pianta del giardino dell'ecc.mo sig. duca Mattei alla navicella nel Monte Celio (title on object) Gardens in Rome (series title) Li giardini di Roma / con le loro piante alzate / e vedute in prospettiva (series title), Floor plan of Duke Girolamo Mattei's garden in Rome. Top left a cartouche with title. Bottom right a text box with explanatory list of numbers, garden, plan, map of garden, Rome, Girolamo Mattei, Giovanni Battista Falda (mentioned on object), 1683, paper, etching, h 304 mm × w 395 mm

Map of Van Diemen's Land / by George Frankland, Surveyor General and sole Commissioner of Crown Lands ; engraved and published by Joseph Cross ca. 1839 - - Mandatory Photo Credit: TAHO.

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Dai-to-a Kyoeiken) was a concept created and promulgated during the Showa era by the government and military of the Empire of Japan. It represented the desire to create a self-sufficient bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers. The Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe planned the Sphere in 1940 in an attempt to create a Great East Asia, comprising Japan, Manchukuo, China, and parts of Southeast Asia, that would, according to imperial propaganda, establish a new international order seeking ‘co prosperity’ for Asian countries which would share prosperity and peace, free from Western colonialism and domination. In historical fact, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is remembered largely as a front for the Japanese control of occupied countries during World War II, in which puppet governments manipulated local populations and economies for the benefit of Imperial Japan.

The Sino–Vietnamese War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh biên giới Việt-Trung), also known as the Third Indochina War, known in the PRC as 对越自卫反击战 (duì yuè zìwèi fǎnjī zhàn) (Counterattack against Vietnam in Self-Defense) and in Vietnam as Chiến tranh chống bành trướng Trung Hoa (War against Chinese expansionism), was a brief but bloody border war fought in 1979 between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The PRC launched the offensive in response to Vietnam's 1978 invasion and occupation of Cambodia, which ended the reign of the PRC-backed Khmer Rouge. The Chinese invaded Northern Vietnam and captured some of the northernmost cities in Vietnam. On March 6 China declared that the gate to Hanoi was open and that their punitive mission had been achieved and retreated back to China. Both China and Vietnam claimed victory in the last of the Indochina Wars of the twentieth century; as Vietnamese troops remained in Cambodia until 1989 it can be said that the P

[Polus Antarcticus] Terra Australis Incognita ca. 1680 - - Mandatory Photo Credit: TAHO.

Map of Temixtitan (Tenochtitlan) From "Proeclara Ferdinandi Cortessi de Nova Maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio" "The Clear Narration by Hernan Cortes about the New Spain of the Atlantic Ocean" Published 1524 Hernando Cortes Nuremburg Newberry Library, Chicago

Japan/USA: Chart showing the 'Track of the Task Force for Pearl Harbor Attack', Reports of General MacArthur prepared by his General Staff, Washington: GPO, 1951

Fraser's Panoramic Plan of London, unknown artist, ( ? Josiah Neele ), after unknown artist, 1831, Engraving with some hand coloring, Sheet: 10 3/8 x 17 11/16in. (26.4 x 44.9cm)

This map was produced at the height of British Imperial power and shows direct British rule extending all the way from Iran (Persia) to Thailand (Siam). Most of the contiguous Indian Ocean littoral, from South Africa to Singapore and Australia, was also under British administration or de facto control. It is relevant to note that the map shows Sikkim extending north into the present-day territory of China's Tibetan Autonomous Region. Similarly Darjeeling is shown in eastern Nepal, while Bhutan is elongated to the east and most of India's Arunachal Pradesh province is shown as part of the Qing Empire. In Kashmir, by contrast, the disputed Aksai Chin region, now under Chinese control, is shown as part of India.

Board game Steamtram game Haarlem-Alkmaar circa 1900.

Spain/Catalonia: Tunisia, Libya and the central Mediterranean as represented in the Catalan Atlas, by the Jewish illustrator Cresques Abraham, 1375

The South Manchuria Railway was built as a part of the Chinese Eastern Railway in 1898-1903 by Imperial Russia according to the Russian-Chinese convention and the Convention of Peking 1860. The South Manchuria Railway Company (南満州鉄道株式会社/南満洲鉄道株式会社 Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha, or 満鉄 Mantetsu) (Chinese: 南满铁路） was a company founded in the Empire of Japan in 1906, taken over after the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), and operated within China in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. The railway itself ran from Lüshun Port at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula to Harbin, where it connected to the Chinese Eastern Railway. In 1945, the Soviet Union invaded and liberated the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Rolling stock and moveable equipment was looted, and taken back to the Soviet Union, some of which was returned when the Chinese Communist government came into power. The South Manchuria Railway Company or Mantetsu was dissolved by order of the American o

Africa And Europa From Portolan Atlas Of Four Charts 1612 Maps(- ) Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Dai-to-a Kyoeiken) was a concept created and promulgated during the Showa era by the government and military of the Empire of Japan. It represented the desire to create a self-sufficient bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers. The Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe planned the Sphere in 1940 in an attempt to create a Great East Asia, comprising Japan, Manchukuo, China, and parts of Southeast Asia, that would, according to imperial propaganda, establish a new international order seeking ‘co prosperity’ for Asian countries which would share prosperity and peace, free from Western colonialism and domination. In historical fact, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is remembered largely as a front for the Japanese control of occupied countries during World War II, in which puppet governments manipulated local populations and economies for the benefit of Imperial Japan.

De la sphere. Figure II. ca. 1683 Credit: UBC Library

Spain/Catalonia: Cathay (inverted) and the Great Khan as represented in the Catalan Atlas, by the Jewish illustrator Cresques Abraham, 1375

Vintage Maps / Antique Maps - map of the island of Jamaica ca. 1763.

The Atlas Maior is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and around 3000 pages of text. It was the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. Earlier, much smaller versions, titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus, were published from 1634 onwards.

Spain/Catalonia: Egypt, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the Black Sea as represented in the Catalan Atlas, by the Jewish illustrator Cresques Abraham, 1375

Map of Guinea and surrounding regions. The Benin Kingdom is indicated in the east. Amsterdam, Blaeu, J. & G. 1640-50.

Hobart Town Map [1838?] - - Mandatory Photo Credit: TAHO.

Coste Occidentale d'Afrique. Publiee par ordre du Comte de Maurepas en 1738. Taken from a work by Jacques Bellin (1703-1772).

The Cantino planisphere (or Cantino World Map) is the earliest surviving map showing Portuguese geographic discoveries in the east and west. It is named after Alberto Cantino, an agent for the Duke of Ferrara, who successfully smuggled it from Portugal to Italy in 1502. The map is particularly notable for portraying a fragmentary record of the Brazilian coast, discovered in 1500 by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, and for depicting the African coast of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans with a remarkable accuracy and detail. It was valuable at the beginning of the sixteenth century because it showed detailed and up-to-date strategic information in a time when geographic knowledge of the world was growing at a fast pace. It is important in our days because it contains unique historical information about the maritime exploration and the evolution of nautical cartography in a particularly interesting period. The Cantino planisphere is the earliest extant nautical chart where plac

Heian-kyō (平安京, literally 'tranquility and peace capital') was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto. It was the capital of Japan for over one thousand years, from 794 to 1868 with an interruption in 1180. Emperor Kammu established it as the capital in 794, moving the Imperial Court there from nearby Nagaoka-kyō at the recommendation of his advisor Wake no Kiyomaro and marking the beginning of the Heian period of Japanese history. The city was modelled after the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital of Chang'an (modern-day Xi'an). It remained the chief political center until 1185, when the samurai Minamoto clan defeated the Taira clan in the Genpei War, moving administration of national affairs to Kamakura and establishing the Kamakura shogunate. Though political power would be wielded by the samurai class over the course of three different shogunates, Heian remained the site of the Imperial Court and seat of Imperial power, and thus remained the official capital. In fact,

Polus Antarcticus Terra Australis Incognita / Henricus Hondius excudit ca. 1639 - - Mandatory Photo Credit: TAHO.

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