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This category is for historic maps showing all or part of Europe. See subcategories for smaller areas. "Historic maps" means maps made over seventy (70) years ago.
Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.
Description: 'The National Savings Picture Map of the Continent of Europe.' Date: 1946 Our catalogue Reference: NSC 5/198. Date: 1 March 2016, 13:55: Source:
Category:Early Middle Ages — 500–1000 AD; 5th to 10th Centuries; Category:High Middle Ages — 1000–1300 AD; 11th, 12th, 13th Centuries; Category:Late Middle Ages — 1301–1600 AD; 14th, 15th, 16th Centuries; Category:Historic maps of Europe; Category:Maps of Europe
Reverted to version as of 23:23, 10 November 2015 (UTC) A version of this map without disputed regions already exists as File:Blank map of Europe 2.svg: 18:44, 26 October 2016: 680 × 520 (731 KB) Giorgi Balakhadze: fix: 18:43, 26 October 2016: 680 × 520 (732 KB) Giorgi Balakhadze: Rv in accordance to COM:OVERWRITE.
In 1715 Herman Moll published the Beaver Map, one of the most famous early maps of North America, which he copied from a 1698 work by Nicolas de Fer. In 1763–1767 Captain James Cook mapped Newfoundland. In 1777 Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres created a monumental four volume atlas of North America, Atlantic Neptune.
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.