Historical maps thread

[WolfBear]

I figured that we should have a thread where we can post historical maps. I don't merely mean old maps, but rather maps that portray interesting historical events. Please allow me to start:

Here's a map showing the mean center of the US population from 1790 to 2020:

Here's a map showing the historical territorial expansion of the US:

Here's a map of each US country by the dominant ancestry there in 2000:

And here is a series of maps showing the decline in Ukraine's Jewish population between 1959 and 2001 based on the Jewish percentage of the total population in each part of Ukraine in each census year:

1959:

1970:

1979:

1989:

2001:

Which maps can you add to this thread?

 

[WolfBear]

This is a gruesome map, but interesting nonetheless: A map of the origins of every single Jewish victim murdered at Auschwitz during the Holocaust:

Archivists are racing to identify every Jewish Holocaust victim

On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, just 400,000 Holocaust survivors are still alive

www.economist.com

The map scale is:

-Up to 5
-Up to 10
-Up to 50
-Up to 100
-Up to 200
-Up to 500
-Up to 1,000

And the darker the color, the greater the death toll.

 

[WolfBear]

Language map of Ukraine in 2001:

Unsurprisingly, the red (Russian) areas subsequently split off from Ukraine in 2014.

Literacy map of Romania in 1930:

As you can tell based on this ethnic map of Romania in 1930, the most literate peoples in Romania in 1930 were Germans and Magyars (Hungarians):

Literacy map of Yugoslavia in 1931:

The former Austro-Hungarian parts of Yugoslavia were much more literate than the rest of Yugoslavia was in 1931.

 

[Skallagrim]

Here's a map showing the mean center of the US population from 1790 to 2020:

It stayed much the same on a North-South axis, but it's interesting to see that the Civil War happened almost as soon as the 'centre of gravity' passed out of Virginia.

Symbolic, really.

 

[WolfBear]

It stayed much the same on a North-South axis, but it's interesting to see that the Civil War happened almost as soon as the 'centre of gravity' passed out of Virginia.

Symbolic, really.

Not just out of Virginia, but into the North and outside of the South!

The disappearing ISIS Caliphate:

 

[WolfBear]

Polish literacy rate in 1931:

There's a clear pattern here:

From most literate to less literate:

-Ex-German Poland.
-Ex-Austrian parts of Poland with huge Polish populations. Also, Warsaw and Lodz.
-Ex-Austrian parts of Poland with smaller Polish populations and western ex-Russian Poland (minus Warsaw and Lodz).
-Central ex-Russian Poland.
-Eastern ex-Russian Poland.

This link contains a PDF of an article with some demographic maps of the Recovered Territories of Poland in 1950:

https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/946916

 

[WolfBear]

Population density map of present-day Poland:

Linguistic/language population dot map of 1931 Poland:

The Arab percentage of the total population in Israel in (I think) 2000:

Honestly, I actually wouldn't mind if Israel's Arab-majority territories would have seceded from Israel. But they don't actually want to do this to my knowledge.

 

[WolfBear]

Mean US state centers of population in 1910 and 2010:

Mean centers of population by state, 1910 vs. 2010 [OC] [1513 x 983] …

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Maps of Europe's Jewish population in both 1933 and 1950:

 

[WolfBear]

A map of the global German diaspora, around 1930:

A map of the Russians in the other ex-USSR countries after the Soviet Union's 1991 collapse and breakup:

 

[WolfBear]

@sillygoose You might be interested in this:

After the end of WWI, Hugo Preuss proposed to reorganize Germany into 14 states:

Hugo Preuß - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

However, his proposal was never actually adopted by the new Weimar German government--though after the end of World War II, West Germany did adopt a similar idea.

 

[sillygoose]

@sillygoose You might be interested in this:

After the end of WWI, Hugo Preuss proposed to reorganize Germany into 14 states:

Hugo Preuß - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

However, his proposal was never actually adopted by the new Weimar German government--though after the end of World War II, West Germany did adopt a similar idea.

Looks like a better plan then maintaining the old structure.

 

[WolfBear]

Looks like a better plan then maintaining the old structure.

Yeah, IMHO, this was a better plan than the existing structure since the status quo had Prussia be way too dominant.

BTW, were you previously aware of this proposal?

 

[sillygoose]

Yeah, IMHO, this was a better plan than the existing structure since the status quo had Prussia be way too dominant.

BTW, were you previously aware of this proposal?

Nope, thanks for sharing. I've been more interested in the culture of Weimar than the politics.

 

[WolfBear]

Nope, thanks for sharing. I've been more interested in the culture of Weimar than the politics.

No problem! As for me, I personally find both culture and politics to be fascinating!

 

[WolfBear]

@sillygoose Had FF lived and A-H survived, what odds would you have put on this plan eventually being implemented by one of FF's successors, such as Otto von Hapsburg? :

United States of Greater Austria - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[WolfBear]

As you can tell based on this ethnic map of Romania in 1930, the most literate peoples in Romania in 1930 were Germans and Magyars (Hungarians):

A dot version of the ethnic map for Romania in 1930 above:

And here is a map of Romanian Jews specifically in 1930 superimposed over Romania's 1940 borders:

Most of the Jews that Romania had in 1930 were transferred to either Hungary or the Soviet Union in 1940, after which point a lot of them perished in the Holocaust, especially but not only the ones who were transferred to Hungarian rule.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Satirical World War One maps...

12 Satirical Maps Of World War One - Flashbak

12 Satirical Maps Of World War One

flashbak.com

 

[WolfBear]

Race and ethnicity maps of New York City:

Map series of Detroit's racial composition between 1930 and 2019:

 

[WolfBear]

A map of the Russian language in the Russian Empire in 1897:

A map of the subdivisions of the Russian Empire in 1897 by the largest ethnolinguistic group:

A map of Turkic languages in the Russian Empire in 1897:

A map of East Slavic languages in the Russian Empire in 1897:

A map of Siberian indigenous languages in the Russian Empire in 1897:

A map of the Ukrainian language in the Russian Empire in 1897:

A map of Jewish languages (specifically Hebrew and Yiddish) in the Russian Empire in 1897:

 

[WolfBear]

Sudeten/Czech Germans map: