Mladjov's Historical Maps
February 17, 2015 12:35 PM   Subscribe

 
A great resource. Thanks!
posted by Palindromedary at 1:05 PM on February 17, 2015


Ohhhh man the 17 year old dungeon master that lives inside me is awakened by these and he demands I get back to running a GURPS game set in ancient Crete.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:08 PM on February 17, 2015 [10 favorites]


Thank you nice person.
posted by jsavimbi at 1:38 PM on February 17, 2015


...and now I have the Game Of Thrones theme stuck in my head.
posted by The Whelk at 1:53 PM on February 17, 2015


Map porn is the best porn.
posted by Joey Michaels at 2:40 PM on February 17, 2015 [4 favorites]


(especially the Viking map - swoon)
posted by Joey Michaels at 2:41 PM on February 17, 2015 [1 favorite]


Holy crap. I'm teaching the second half of my Unv's history survey right now, and you just made my day. Thank you!
posted by strixus at 3:10 PM on February 17, 2015 [2 favorites]


Just so... distracting and beautiful.
posted by misterbee at 3:56 PM on February 17, 2015


a GURPS game set in ancient Crete

there's a Fafhrd and Grey Mouser story where some sort of world portal dumps them into the Black Sea region in about 300 BC, where they get by on piracy etc.
posted by thelonius at 4:07 PM on February 17, 2015


Nice maps -- clearly a labor of love by Ian Mladjov.

More maps like this, in book form, to be found in the excellent New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History. I have spent hours with that book.
posted by Triplanetary at 4:35 PM on February 17, 2015 [3 favorites]


It's a shame I can only favorite this once.
posted by tallthinone at 4:50 PM on February 17, 2015 [2 favorites]


Asia after the Mongol conquest...

Oh man, how great can it get!
posted by BlueHorse at 6:18 PM on February 17, 2015


These are great. The "tentative" nature of the Hittite Anatolia map is really cool. Assuwa here? Assuwa there? It's wild how many names are so similar to modern names, but we just can't be sure.

Anyone know how to interpret the diacritical marks in the Hittite toponyms? I'm getting the impression from this that it could just indicate a different symbol for the same sound.

Separately, I just picked up a print of a map of the Ottoman Empire, in Ottoman script. The effect of a map that you "know" but can't read is mesmerizing.
posted by daveliepmann at 9:44 PM on February 17, 2015 [1 favorite]


This is great. As well as the maps, the chronologies and genealogies of monarchs from all over the world (as well as various pantheons) are really good.
posted by plep at 1:18 AM on February 18, 2015


These are amazing. I love maps generally and historical maps in particular. I also love interactive ones.

Here's a map of travel times in the Roman Empire.

Here's an interactive world history map.
posted by Happy Dave at 4:23 AM on February 18, 2015 [2 favorites]


I love the ancient maps that show Tibet, for what it was, a large, autonomous area. The Chinese teach their students Tibet was a tiny country, they rescued from feudalism.
posted by Oyéah at 10:44 AM on February 18, 2015


Sweeeeet. *rabbitholes*
posted by Quasirandom at 12:19 PM on February 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


Anyone know how to interpret the diacritical marks in the Hittite toponyms?

‹š› is an ordinary /s/, while ‹ḫ› is /x/ or so. The macron marks (literally) long vowels, e.g. ‹ā› is /aː/. Other points to note are that ‹z› is /ts/, and that what's important about stops (in the usual transcription) is not whether they're written voiceless or voiced, which the Hittites didn't care about, but whether they're written single or double. It's not entirely settled what the phonetic difference was but reading ‹aka› as [aga] and ‹akka› as [ak(ː)a] shouldn't be toooo far off.

More maps like this, in book form, to be found in the excellent New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History.

That's just number two in McEvedy's series of four! I've spent just as much time with the others, his Penguin Atlases of Ancient, Modern, and Recent History.
posted by finka at 1:34 PM on February 18, 2015 [3 favorites]


Another useful book for your quiver.

Atlas of the Year 1000

Also a good gift for the history nerd in your life.
posted by DigDoug at 11:44 AM on February 19, 2015


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