Eastern Europe and Asia: Historic & Ethnical Maps

[Linus]

Indigenous peoples of Siberia


Major ethnic groups of Central Asia


Ethno-Linguistic groups of Asia


The Chinese Republic with Tibet and Mongolia-Political, Racial, and Linguistic (Inset-The Modern Subdivisions of the Mongol Republic)


Vegetation map of northeastern Asia


Winter weather map of northeast Asia

At the northern Amur Bend there is, even in summer, a constant frost three to six feet beneath the surface. The area is so cold because the warm Kuriosho current is deflected toward the east by the islands of Japan. The cold Oyashio current enters the sea of Okhotsk from the north. Verkoyansk is the coldest spot in the world.

The Hsiung-nu in Central Asia, 176 and 128-36 B.C.


The Huns arrive 375-453


Eastern, Central and Southern Asia, ca. 440 A.D.


AD 552 Kok Turks R2


6th and 7th centuries


The Empire of the Avars


First Bulgar state in the Balkans

Bulgars 680, the Bulgars, a Turkic tribe from the east, having been forced from their kingdom around the Black Sea, formed the First State of Bulgaria, as rulers of the Slavs. Their kingdom covered the Danube plain to the north (modern Romania) and south (modern Bulgaria). Later the state of Bulgaria was extended further south into Thrace and Macedonia.

East Slavic and adjacent tribes in the 9th century


Slavs and Norsemen c. AD 880


Hungarian (Magyar) tribes arrive

Five Magyar tribes and two Kun tribes entered the Danube basin in 896, settling within modern Hungary. Although these tribes had co-existed with Turkic peoples in the Steppe for a long time, their language structure is distantly related to the Ugrian peoples which includes the Finns, Estonians, and peoples of Siberia. In the following centuries the Magyars extended their rule in all directions forming the country now called Hungary after its previous rulers, the Huns.

Hungarians expand into Transylvania

The a number of Slavic tribes, Mazovians, Vislanes, Polanie, Goplanes, Pomeranians and four Silesian, forged the Polish state. The name coming from the dominant Polonie (Pole meaning field).

Full map of Europe in year 900


Full map of Europe in year 1000


Invasions of the Vikings, Magyars and Saracens


Cumans


Beginnings of the Mongol Empire-Boundaries of 1234 A.D.


The Baltic states in the 13th century


Mongol Invasion of Central Asia - 13th century


Mongols devastate Hungary and Cumania


AD1300 mongol empire


Asian medieval commerce


Asia during the Ming Dynasty-Boundaries of 1415 A.D. (Inset-The Northwestern Frontier of China)


Map of Russian onslaughts on the Finland 1656

[Agrippa]

Good work, I saved all of them, some are really nice done. Where do you have them from?

[Linus]

"6th and 7th centuries": Voelker Staaten und Kulturen, ein Kartenwerk zur Geschichte, Georg Westermann Verlag, 1973. It's a heirloom from the family and I often studied it when I was a kid. It's the most detailed one I know of, and maybe the second best after the well-known dtv-Atlas Weltgeschichte (even Awar quoted one of it's maps once ). No wonder I was the best scholar in history and even beat the overall class primus (an ethnic Ukrainian ) in rating.

"Invasions of the Vikings, Magyars and Saracens": Atlas der Weltgeschichte, Geoffrey Barraclough, Bechtermünz Verlag, 1997.

The maps in English were found via google image search.

[Agrippa]

dtv-Atlas Weltgeschichte (even Awar quoted one of it's maps once

Yes, because I copied a side of it, I have the dtv-Atlas at home.

[Ukonwacka]

Here are some maps showing the distribution of Finno-Ugrics:


400 AD


900 AD


1300-1400 AD


1500-1600 AD