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Media in category "Historic maps of Europe" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Bradley map 1897.png 809 × 540; 518 KB.
In the 20th century, World War I led to a remaking of the map of Europe as the large empires were broken up into nation-states. Lingering political issues would lead to World War II , during which Nazi Germany perpetrated The Holocaust .
The scope of this article begins in 1815, after a round of negotiations about European borders and spheres of influence were agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna. [3] The Congress of Vienna was a nine-month, pan-European meeting of statesmen who met to settle the many issues arising from the destabilising impact of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the ...
English: Map of Europe and Western Asia in 1923 after World War I. Español: Mapa de Europa y Asia en 1923. ... 20th century; Aftermath of World War I; Balkanization;
12 20th century. 13 21st century. Toggle 21st century subsection. 13.1 Ongoing conflicts. 14 See also. ... This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered ...
A French satirical cartoon map of Europe in 1870. The European Civil War is a concept meant to characterize a series of 19th- and early 20th-century conflicts in Europe as segments of an overarching civil war within a supposed European society. The timeframes associated with this European Civil War vary among historians.
Map of European colonial empires throughout the world in 1914. Two world wars and an economic depression dominated the first half of the 20th century. The First World War was fought between 1914 and 1918. It started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by the Yugoslav nationalist [186] Gavrilo Princip. [187]
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.