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Image:BlankMap-Europe-v2.png – Version of Image:BlankMap-Europe.png, but with sovereign microstates (i.e., under 2 500 km² in area) represented as circles to facilitate identification and colourising. 450 x 422 pixels, 9 943 bytes. Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png – Europe without borders, showing some of North Africa and Western Asia.
This is a list of political entities in the 11th century (1001–1100) AD. It includes both sovereign states and any political predecessors of current sovereign states. Map of the Eastern Hemisphere in 1025 AD
11th Century. 1000. ... Blank map of Europe 1870.svg: North German Confederation. Kingdom of Prussia; Kingdom of Italy; 1890. ... A blank map of Europe. Every country ...
The 11th century is the period from 1001 (represented by the Roman numerals MI) through 1100 (MC) in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the 1st century of the 2nd millennium. In the history of Europe , this period is considered the early part of the High Middle Ages .
During the 18th and 19th century, North Africa was colonized by France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy. During the 1950s and 1960s, and into the 1970s, all of the North African states gained independence from their colonial European rulers, except for a few small Spanish colonies on the far northern tip of Morocco , and parts of the Sahara ...
This end, during the last years of the 12th century BC, occurred after a slow decline of the Mycenaean civilization, which lasted many years before dying out. The beginning of the 11th century BC opened a new context, that of the protogeometric, the beginning of the geometric period, the Greek Dark Ages of traditional historiography.
Approximately one third of the map survives; it shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy. Various Atlantic islands, including the Azores and Canary Islands, are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia and possibly Japan.
This quite basically presents the known world in its real geographic appearance which is visible in the so-called Vatican Map of Isidor (776), the world maps of Beatus of Liebana’s Commentary on the Apocalypse of St John (8th century), the Anglo-Saxon Map (ca. 1000), the Sawley map, the Psalter map, or the large mappae mundi of the 13th ...