Historical maps thread

[WolfBear]

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.

This percentage is actually correlated with the amount of surviving Arab villages in various parts of Israel in the aftermath of Israel's 1948-1949 war of independence:

 

[WolfBear]

@ATP @sillygoose @Marduk You guys might enjoy this map:

It's a map of Upper Silesia's natural resources and industries in the interwar era, when it was partitioned between a Polish east and a German west.

 

[WolfBear]

@sillygoose If you want more maps of partitioned Upper Silesia and its various attributes, you can take a look at this article:

Geographic and Political Boundaries in Upper Silesia on JSTOR

Richard Hartshorne, Geographic and Political Boundaries in Upper Silesia, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec., 1933), pp. 195-228

www.jstor.org

You can find it in full for free on LibGen.

There are some additional maps of partitioned Upper Silesia in this other article by the same author from a year lateer (1934 vs. 1933):

The Upper Silesian Industrial District on JSTOR

Richard Hartshorne, The Upper Silesian Industrial District, Geographical Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1934), pp. 423-438

www.jstor.org

If you want to see another divided and heavily populated territory elsewhere in the world, take a look at the Jerusalem metropolitan area nowadays:

 

[WolfBear]

A map of the percentage of people who regret the Soviet collapse in each Ukrainian oblast:

https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/soviet-nostalgy-in-ukraine-infographic.png

 

[WolfBear]

Maps of the US's historical population density by county:

Map of the US's historical population by county:

Map of the US's historical slave population density by county:

 

[WolfBear]

@Husky_Khan You might enjoy this map (and also my maps above):

It's a map of the foreign-born percentage of the total population in various parts of the US in 1900. As you can see, the Southern US was not very immigrant-receptive back then, unlike right now.

 

[WolfBear]

An animated map of the 2014 Donbass War (Donbass separatists = red; Ukraine = yellow):

 

[WolfBear]

A 1914 map of various Balkan countries' territorial claims and aspirations:

Uneasy Allies

This map, produced in 1914 for a report issued by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, represents the territorial aspirations of all the Balkan nations involved in the wars, including Romania, which did not join the Balkan League, but did take part in the second war. (I've added color to make easier to read.)

The territorial ambitions represented on the map were real enough, although in the nature of such things their outlines can't be drawn neatly—the patriotic sentiments that generated them were seldom subject to precision or political realism. The map indicates the full extent of each nation's territorial aspirations, including some that could not have been fulfilled by a victory over the Ottoman Empire (for example, the ambitions of Serbia and Romania to incorporate territory ruled by Austria-Hungary and, in Romania's case, by Russia as well).

 

[bintananth]

Video showing which side controlled what on any given day during the US Civil War:

 

[WolfBear]

Video showing which side controlled what on any given day during the US Civil War:

I like how the Union cut the Confederacy into two separate parts by conquering the Mississippi River and only later finished the job in Virginia.

 

[bintananth]

I like how the Union cut the Confederacy into two separate parts by conquering the Mississippi River and only later finished the job in Virginia.

The Union basically followed Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan" of strangling the South. In 1861 he was too old to implement it and had to retire.

 

[WolfBear]

The Union basically followed Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan" of strangling the South. In 1861 he was too old to implement it and had to retire.

Yep:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Plan

The logic of blockading your enemy into submission was subsequently followed by the British in both WWI and WWII and by the Nigerians in the Biafran War.

 

[bintananth]

Yep:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Plan

The logic of blockading your enemy into submission was subsequently followed by the British in both WWI and WWII and by the Nigerians in the Biafran War.

Interesting thing about the video. It includes estimates of battle deaths. Up until about May, 1864 the Confederate number is higher.

While the Union tended to lose in the battles which make it into History books the Confederates - who were outnumbered from the start - generally lost the smaller ones which don't, badly.

 

[WolfBear]

Bulgarian internal migration in 1910:

I'm presuming that the white areas on this map had negative internal migration rates.

@Agent23 Why were a lot of people moving to northern Bulgaria in 1910?

 

[WolfBear]

A map of Kiev's territorial growth:

 

[WolfBear]

 

[WolfBear]

@Husky_Khan @sillygoose Any thoughts on my recent maps here?

 

[sillygoose]

@Husky_Khan @sillygoose Any thoughts on my recent maps here?

Sure, cool.

 

[WolfBear]

Sure, cool.

Here's a map of European illiteracy in 1930:

Percentage of all births being out of marriage (illegitimate) births in 1910, I think:

 

[WolfBear]

A map of 20th century Romania: