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Azathoth
12-03-2009, 05:49
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/eastern_europe/

Cold-War era maps of Eastern Europe.

cegorach
12-03-2009, 08:40
Not bad, but it is only the Soviet Union + parts of its neighbours. :book:

TinCow
12-03-2009, 22:17
Actually, that website has a huge number of maps. I've had it bookmarked for a long time and have found it very useful. This is the root directory to all the maps:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/

I'm particularly fond of the historical atlas maps:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_shepherd_1923.html

Subotan
12-10-2009, 23:14
Wow. (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/central_europe_1477.jpg)

Watchman
12-13-2009, 12:33
Wow. (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/central_europe_1477.jpg)And every single piece of that mind-boggling jigsaw had its own particular long-established rights and privileges which it knew by heart and fought tooth and nail to keep.
Now You Know why the Holy Roman Emperors had such a devil of a time getting *anything* done with their realm, even when they didn't find themselves having to fight some part of it...

A Very Super Market
12-13-2009, 18:25
Interesting how history moves. In a mere century, all those past squabbles were forgotten and all the tiny bubbles on that map united under a madman.

Watchman
12-13-2009, 18:34
I'm pretty sure Wilhelm I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I,_German_Emperor) was sane enough...

A Very Super Market
12-13-2009, 18:39
Half a century after German unification, is what I meant to say. Doesn't roll off the tongue very well though.