• caliphate map - image 11

    title: 1855 Spruner Map of Asia in the 9th and 10th Centuries Geographicus - AsienIXX-spruneri-1855

    artist: Justus Perthes

    date: 1855

    date QS:P571,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

    dimensions: Size unit=in width=17 height=14

    source: Geographicus-source

    credit: This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.

    description: This fascinating hand colored map depicts Asia during 9th and 10th centuries. This period corresponds with the Song dynasty of China and the Manchurian expansion in to Mongolia. This is also the period of the Islamic empires under the Caliphates. All text is in German, but the title roughly translates as “Asia at the middle of the 9th up to the end of the 10th century.” map was originally part of the 1855 edition of Karl von Spruner’s Historical Hand Atlas.

  • caliphate map - image 22

    title: 1837 Malte Brun Map of Europe in the Middle Ages - Geographicus - MiddleAges-mb-1837

    artist: link

    date: 1837

    date QS:P571,+1837-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

    dimensions: Size unit=in width=12 height=9

    source: Geographicus-source

    credit: This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.

    description: This is a beautiful 1837 hand colored map of Europe and parts of Asia as they appeared in the Middle Ages – roughly 900 A.D. All text is in French.

  • caliphate map - image 3

    title: CHAO(1849) Atlas Historico Geografico de España - Mapa 4 (756-1030)

    artist: unknown

    date: 1849

    date QS:P571,+1849-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

    source: Image extracted from page 394 of ''Cuadros de la geografia histórica de España, desde los primeros tiempos históricos hasta el dia. Con varias mapas de las diversas dominaciones, etc'', by CHAO, Eduardo. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied [link from Flickr]. ''Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.'' Mechanical Curator image

    credit: This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.

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