Map of Europe, 1871–1877

On 1 July of every year from 1871 to 1877, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 29 names within Europe. The borders come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 1 outlines here that the source gives no name.

Names on the map

As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn inside this view. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Russian Empire3,580,000
Ottoman Empire1,720,000
Sweden–Norway899,000
French Republic815,000
Austria-Hungary638,000
German Reich561,000
Spain514,000
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland383,000
Kingdom of Italy314,000
Denmark219,000
Kingdom of Portugal93,300
Kingdom of Greece81,300
Alawi Sultanate65,500
Kingdom of the Netherlands42,700
Switzerland41,200
Principality of Serbia37,600
Belgium29,900
Persia15,400
Principality of Montenegro4,310
Luxembourg2,590
Isle of Man1,350
Jersey984
Crown Colony of Malta925
Guernsey909
Andorra467
Heligoland156
Liechtenstein156
San Marino60.1
Monaco17.9

Open the map on 1 July of

1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877

What changed since 1869–1870

Now drawn

French Republic, German Reich

No longer drawn

Second French Empire, North German Confederation, Kingdom of Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, Papal States, Hesse

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1871 Map of the Middle East · 1870–1871 Map of Africa · 1871 Map of South Asia · 1867–1872 Map of East Asia · 1869–1872 Map of Southeast Asia · 1871–1872 Map of Central Asia · 1859–1873 Map of North America · 1871 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1871 Map of South America · 1864–1879 Map of Oceania · 1871–1874

Source and method

Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.

Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 25°W–45°E, 34°N–72°N on this date, with the name the map writes on it. The list is worked out when the site is built, from the same records and the same code the map uses, so it says what the map shows — not more. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation.

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