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🗺️ Historic Borders
This beautifully simple site overlays historical borders onto modern maps, letting you trace the shifting lines of empires, kingdoms and states through time. Pick a place and a year — see who claimed it then, and who came before. An interactive reminder that even the most solid lines on a
This beautifully simple site overlays historical borders onto modern maps, letting you trace the shifting lines of empires, kingdoms and states through time. Pick a place and a year — see who claimed it then, and who came before. An interactive reminder that even the most solid lines on a map were once someone's idea of order: 'for most of the past 5,000 years, kingdoms and empires were exceptional islands of political hierarchy.'
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