1) A WORLD ATLAS
An online world atlas that allows you to highlight each of the 194 sovereign countries in the world with their local and English name in short and long form, with their capital, flag, population, land area and with the average life expectancy of the inhabitants. Moreover a red bar shows the population size in an analogical way.An additional page displays the special status territories like Gaza, Transnistria, or the Somalian states.
2) Printable World Maps
As an Euratlas-Info member you can download printable blank or labeled world maps adapted for A4 sheets: a b/w blank map, a b/w labeled map with the countries, a color blank map and a color labeled map with all the countries. Small fonts were used for the names so that all the 194 independant states of the world can be shown on one single sheet.
3) Croatia, Slavonia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro
Here is an old map of the Dalmatian lands: Croatia, Slavonia, the Military Frontier, Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Montenegro. Considering the boundaries shown on it and the activity of the author, it appears that this map was drawn about 1865. Friedrich Handtke (1815 -1879 ) was the director of the cartographic section in the Carl Flemming (1806 -1878 ) publishing house in Glogow or Glogau. Handtke drew himself 168 maps out of 260 published under his authority.
4) Albania
In the Europe Photos pages, you will find a new section with 41 pictures of Albania, especially from the Gjirokaster and Butrint or Buthrorum areas which are both listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.You will also see photos of the colourful Tirana, the Berat citadel, Shkodër, Saranda and several Albanian landscapes.
5) Euratlas Shop, 10% discount
Find an interesting choice of digital maps and atlases in the euratlas shop and, as an euratlas-info member, you can have a special discount of 10% on the following products:- Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe Expert- Atlas historique périodique de l'Europe Expert- Periodischer Geschichtsatlas von Europauntil December 31, 2007. You need simply to past the following code into the required field, at the bottom of the order page: -------Ask us for the code in you cannot read it
21 November 2007
29 September 2007
Euratlas-Info 18
1) THE PEUTINGERIAN TABLE
It is probably the oldest road map in the world. These 11 parchment scrolls were copied in 1265 from one or several Roman originals and they show the earth as known in Antiquity.With the authorization of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library), Euratlas is proud to present an on-line real-size version of the Peutingerian Map. You will have a direct access to each of the 11 scrolls and you will be able to enlarge every region simply by clicking on it to see the ancient localities and their modern names. Moreover, for each map area, you will get the possibility to display a black and white version with the transcription of the main towns.Have a look at this antique map and enjoy!
2) Map of the Gallia Narbonensis Roads about 100 AD
As an Euratlas-Info member you can download a large map (1553 x 1783 x 72 px) of Southeastern Gaul and Nortwestern Italy in year 100 with the main Roman roads and the place names ancient and modern. It will be particularly interesting to compare it with the corresponding areas of the Tabula Peutingeriana.To get Euratlas-Info maps and images you must click on the download link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.
3) Europe Photos
Several new pictures have been added in the France North and France South sections, especially photos of buildings and statues.Large size photos are available in the Euratlas-Info Members's area and you are welcome to download them freely.
4) HISATLAS 0.9
Hisatlas, Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age, has been enhanced with 8 new maps: 4 maps of the Caucasus area and new maps of Ghana and Togo. Several previous maps have been updated also. Let us recall that Hisatlas is an essential tool for he who wants to know the dates of the boundaries changes across the world.
It is probably the oldest road map in the world. These 11 parchment scrolls were copied in 1265 from one or several Roman originals and they show the earth as known in Antiquity.With the authorization of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library), Euratlas is proud to present an on-line real-size version of the Peutingerian Map. You will have a direct access to each of the 11 scrolls and you will be able to enlarge every region simply by clicking on it to see the ancient localities and their modern names. Moreover, for each map area, you will get the possibility to display a black and white version with the transcription of the main towns.Have a look at this antique map and enjoy!
2) Map of the Gallia Narbonensis Roads about 100 AD
As an Euratlas-Info member you can download a large map (1553 x 1783 x 72 px) of Southeastern Gaul and Nortwestern Italy in year 100 with the main Roman roads and the place names ancient and modern. It will be particularly interesting to compare it with the corresponding areas of the Tabula Peutingeriana.To get Euratlas-Info maps and images you must click on the download link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.
3) Europe Photos
Several new pictures have been added in the France North and France South sections, especially photos of buildings and statues.Large size photos are available in the Euratlas-Info Members's area and you are welcome to download them freely.
4) HISATLAS 0.9
Hisatlas, Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age, has been enhanced with 8 new maps: 4 maps of the Caucasus area and new maps of Ghana and Togo. Several previous maps have been updated also. Let us recall that Hisatlas is an essential tool for he who wants to know the dates of the boundaries changes across the world.
03 June 2007
Euratlas-Info 17
1) The Lesage Historical Atlas
Count Emmanuel de Las Cases (1766 - 1842) emigrated in 1790 from France to England for political reasons. There, under the pseudonym of A. Le Sage, he published in 1802 a monumental Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique. This work was a great success in Europe a went reprinted several times till ca. 1845. Las Cases, companion of Napoleon in Saint Helena, is famous for the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène but his Atlas marks also a stage in the study of history because he his the first to explain historical events through charts and maps with arrows and text cartouches. You will find here all the 33 sheets of the 1808 edition as .jpg images and each page is zoomable. The text is in French but the maps are easily understandable. You may meet difficulties to read some maps anf it will be necessary to open 2 browsers side by side, but keep in mind that the original book is an Elephant Folio, that is 54 cm x 35 cm.
2) The Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
Now, you can view the web-version of the Euratlas Historical Atlas either in high resolution or, like before, in low resolution. The high resolution pages offer better quality maps and display also several major cities for each century with their local contemporaneous name. Morover small flags and arrows are giving access to the French and German pages or to the next and previous century. By clicking on the thumbnails maps, you can change the current view: either quarter of maps or full map.If you feel that some denominations of countries or towns are looking strange, like "Igilgilis" or "Empire of Romania", I suggest that you search in English, German or French Wikipedia for those names and you will find several references. You can also ask me directly for further explanations after July 25, 2007.When the high resolution maps were launched on-line, euratlas.com received so much visits (more than 90 000 on June 25) that the website was blocked for several hours but safety precautions have been adopted now to avoid further shortages.
3) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
Visit again and let know the Euratlas-Info area. This month you will find a nice map of Ancient Greece from the French Atlas Universel 1877 by Drioux & Leroy. This document is offered in high resolution and you will be able to print it with a good quality.To get Euratlas-Info maps and images you must click on the download link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.
Count Emmanuel de Las Cases (1766 - 1842) emigrated in 1790 from France to England for political reasons. There, under the pseudonym of A. Le Sage, he published in 1802 a monumental Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique. This work was a great success in Europe a went reprinted several times till ca. 1845. Las Cases, companion of Napoleon in Saint Helena, is famous for the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène but his Atlas marks also a stage in the study of history because he his the first to explain historical events through charts and maps with arrows and text cartouches. You will find here all the 33 sheets of the 1808 edition as .jpg images and each page is zoomable. The text is in French but the maps are easily understandable. You may meet difficulties to read some maps anf it will be necessary to open 2 browsers side by side, but keep in mind that the original book is an Elephant Folio, that is 54 cm x 35 cm.
2) The Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
Now, you can view the web-version of the Euratlas Historical Atlas either in high resolution or, like before, in low resolution. The high resolution pages offer better quality maps and display also several major cities for each century with their local contemporaneous name. Morover small flags and arrows are giving access to the French and German pages or to the next and previous century. By clicking on the thumbnails maps, you can change the current view: either quarter of maps or full map.If you feel that some denominations of countries or towns are looking strange, like "Igilgilis" or "Empire of Romania", I suggest that you search in English, German or French Wikipedia for those names and you will find several references. You can also ask me directly for further explanations after July 25, 2007.When the high resolution maps were launched on-line, euratlas.com received so much visits (more than 90 000 on June 25) that the website was blocked for several hours but safety precautions have been adopted now to avoid further shortages.
3) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
Visit again and let know the Euratlas-Info area. This month you will find a nice map of Ancient Greece from the French Atlas Universel 1877 by Drioux & Leroy. This document is offered in high resolution and you will be able to print it with a good quality.To get Euratlas-Info maps and images you must click on the download link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.
29 May 2007
Euratlas-Info 16
1) The countries in the Physical Atlas of Europe
Now, you can highlight a country by clicking on its name and display its position on the whole map of Europe. For each country, you will get the following information: English and local name in short and long form, capital city, area, population and average life expectancy. Links towards the corresponding Wikipedia entry and the country's official website are also provided. You will see also an interesting page about the special status territories like Transnistria, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh etc. See the explanation for more details.
http://www.euratlas.com/Atlasphys/Countries.htm
2) Alpine and Danube Lands about 1715
We are presenting an old map of Central Europe, extending from the Upper Danube basin with Dalmatia to the Northern Adriatic Sea with the Eastern part of the Alps. No place, no date, one sheet wears the mention "Elias Boeck a. H. sculps. a. V." Elias Boeck or Baeck, alias Heldenmuth (= a. H.), was an engraver and publisher born in 1679, active in Rome, Venice, Laibach or Ljubljana and Augsburg or Augusta Vindelicorum (= a.V.) between 1705 and 1747. That is why this map which shows the main towns, rivers and mountains ranges of modern Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Eastern Switzerland can be dated from about 1715. Note that this area was the "front line" between the Holy German Empire and the Ottoman Empire and a special care has been brought to the description of the fortified towns.
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/danube_alps/index.html
3) Europe Photos
The Europe Photos section has been increased again and displays now more than 1000 pictures. You will find new pages with nice images of Croatia and Slovenia.Moreover large size photos have been added in the Euratlas-Info protected area and you are welcome to download them freely.
4) Atlas der islamischen Welt
We are happy to sell, in the Euratlas Shop, a new atlas by Dr Andreas Birken on a red hot subject: 119 pages, 96 highly detailed maps and several charts on geography, peoples, history, politics, and economy of the Islamic World from 622 to 2007 A.D.The atlas is available only in German, but this should not be a great difficulty for those who are used to reading maps.Cartographic documents about Islam are scarce or inaccurate. So this atlas will fill in a gap.
5) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
Visit again and let know the Euratlas-Info area. You will find there two large engravings: the1808 frontispice of the Atlas historique by Emmanuel de Las Cases showing the Napoleonic Fasti and a XVIIIth century map of Switzerland. These documents are offered in high resolution and you can print them with a good quality.To get Euratlas-Info maps you must click on the download link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.
Now, you can highlight a country by clicking on its name and display its position on the whole map of Europe. For each country, you will get the following information: English and local name in short and long form, capital city, area, population and average life expectancy. Links towards the corresponding Wikipedia entry and the country's official website are also provided. You will see also an interesting page about the special status territories like Transnistria, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh etc. See the explanation for more details.
http://www.euratlas.com/Atlasphys/Countries.htm
2) Alpine and Danube Lands about 1715
We are presenting an old map of Central Europe, extending from the Upper Danube basin with Dalmatia to the Northern Adriatic Sea with the Eastern part of the Alps. No place, no date, one sheet wears the mention "Elias Boeck a. H. sculps. a. V." Elias Boeck or Baeck, alias Heldenmuth (= a. H.), was an engraver and publisher born in 1679, active in Rome, Venice, Laibach or Ljubljana and Augsburg or Augusta Vindelicorum (= a.V.) between 1705 and 1747. That is why this map which shows the main towns, rivers and mountains ranges of modern Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Eastern Switzerland can be dated from about 1715. Note that this area was the "front line" between the Holy German Empire and the Ottoman Empire and a special care has been brought to the description of the fortified towns.
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/danube_alps/index.html
3) Europe Photos
The Europe Photos section has been increased again and displays now more than 1000 pictures. You will find new pages with nice images of Croatia and Slovenia.Moreover large size photos have been added in the Euratlas-Info protected area and you are welcome to download them freely.
4) Atlas der islamischen Welt
We are happy to sell, in the Euratlas Shop, a new atlas by Dr Andreas Birken on a red hot subject: 119 pages, 96 highly detailed maps and several charts on geography, peoples, history, politics, and economy of the Islamic World from 622 to 2007 A.D.The atlas is available only in German, but this should not be a great difficulty for those who are used to reading maps.Cartographic documents about Islam are scarce or inaccurate. So this atlas will fill in a gap.
5) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
Visit again and let know the Euratlas-Info area. You will find there two large engravings: the1808 frontispice of the Atlas historique by Emmanuel de Las Cases showing the Napoleonic Fasti and a XVIIIth century map of Switzerland. These documents are offered in high resolution and you can print them with a good quality.To get Euratlas-Info maps you must click on the download link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.
29 April 2007
Euratlas-Info 15
) Thurn and Taxis Post Roads Map in Germany 1786
The Torre e Tasso family, from Val Sassina, owned several courier services in Lombardy from about 1290. From 1490 on, Francesco de Tassis, called Franz von Taxis, was granted the right to carry government and private mail throughout the Empire and in Spain. Thus, the Thurn & Taxis family operated for 350 years, postal services in the major part of western Europe, from Spain to Hungary. This map, by Homann's Heirs, presents the 1786 Thurn & Taxis post-roads in the German Empire and in the neighbouring countries. Be aware that some roads, especially in the ecclesiastical principalities are missing.Johann Baptist Homann (1664 - 1724) was imperial geographer from 1715 in Nurnberg and his work was continued by his son Christoph under the name Hommänischen Erben.
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/deutschland_1786/index.html
2) Road Map of England and Wales, ca. 1779
This map, from the Modern Universal British Traveler, one of the first travel guides in English, written by Charles Burlington and David Lewellyn Rees in 1779 is a very useful document. You will discover the main XVIIIth century travel roads in the southern part of the British Islands with the distances in miles. However these roads must not be compared to the continental post-roads because in Britain, the postal service was a royal monopoly.
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/england_wales/index.html
3) Europe Photos
The Europe Photos section has been increased again and displays now more than 950 pictures of European towns and countries. You will find new photos especially in the Rome, Paris, Southern Germany, Austria and Swiss Plateau sections. Next month Croatia and Slovenia will be added.
http://www.euratlas.com/Atlas/rome/
4) Geschichtsatlas von Europa
Inform your German-speaking friends that the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe has been translated in German by Mr Thomas Höckmann. The maps are now available online or as an Experten Version by direct download. Note that the layout of the online German version will be soon adopted for the English version too.Moreover, we are preparing an enhanced software vector version with a chronology and provinces, countries and cities databases of the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe but it will not be ready before 2008.
5) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
A protected area for Euratlas-Info subscribers only has been created. You will find in it the vector maps of Roman Western Europe and Dalmatia and several high resolution .jpg blank maps. Check this section regularly because new maps and high resolution pictures of Europe will be added.You can access to the protected pages by typin
The Torre e Tasso family, from Val Sassina, owned several courier services in Lombardy from about 1290. From 1490 on, Francesco de Tassis, called Franz von Taxis, was granted the right to carry government and private mail throughout the Empire and in Spain. Thus, the Thurn & Taxis family operated for 350 years, postal services in the major part of western Europe, from Spain to Hungary. This map, by Homann's Heirs, presents the 1786 Thurn & Taxis post-roads in the German Empire and in the neighbouring countries. Be aware that some roads, especially in the ecclesiastical principalities are missing.Johann Baptist Homann (1664 - 1724) was imperial geographer from 1715 in Nurnberg and his work was continued by his son Christoph under the name Hommänischen Erben.
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/deutschland_1786/index.html
2) Road Map of England and Wales, ca. 1779
This map, from the Modern Universal British Traveler, one of the first travel guides in English, written by Charles Burlington and David Lewellyn Rees in 1779 is a very useful document. You will discover the main XVIIIth century travel roads in the southern part of the British Islands with the distances in miles. However these roads must not be compared to the continental post-roads because in Britain, the postal service was a royal monopoly.
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/england_wales/index.html
3) Europe Photos
The Europe Photos section has been increased again and displays now more than 950 pictures of European towns and countries. You will find new photos especially in the Rome, Paris, Southern Germany, Austria and Swiss Plateau sections. Next month Croatia and Slovenia will be added.
http://www.euratlas.com/Atlas/rome/
4) Geschichtsatlas von Europa
Inform your German-speaking friends that the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe has been translated in German by Mr Thomas Höckmann. The maps are now available online or as an Experten Version by direct download. Note that the layout of the online German version will be soon adopted for the English version too.Moreover, we are preparing an enhanced software vector version with a chronology and provinces, countries and cities databases of the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe but it will not be ready before 2008.
5) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
A protected area for Euratlas-Info subscribers only has been created. You will find in it the vector maps of Roman Western Europe and Dalmatia and several high resolution .jpg blank maps. Check this section regularly because new maps and high resolution pictures of Europe will be added.You can access to the protected pages by typin
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