MapsHistorical

Historical Maps: Showing the area by date depicted, not by date created

700 - 800 "THE SLAVS,
VIII - IXc."

1000-1772 "Karten zur Geschichte Polens und Des
Westlichen Russlands,"1908, Karl Wolf, Leipzig.
And a DETAIL image of the area in the year 1000.

1000 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

1220 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

1270 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

1200 "LIETUVIU GIMINES
SENOVEJE." (Ancient
lands of Lithuania, to the
13th century.)

13th Cent.: "LIETUVA:
MINDAUGO LAIKAIS."
(The Age of Mindaugas.)

1350-60 "Baltic Lands."
From the 1903 "Atlas to
Freeman's Historical Geography"

1400 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

1478 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

14th-15th Cent.
"Litva." From
www.belarusguide.com

13th-15th Cent.
"Lithuanian State."

15th Cent. "Lietuva."

1386-1572
Karl von
Spruner:
"POLEN
UND
LITTHAUEN
unter den
Jagjellonen,"
from Goth's
"Historisch
Geographi-
scher Hand-
atlas," 1855.

1563 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

1569 "The Polish
Republic, Vassal states."

1617 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

1634-60 "Polish Republic."

1635 "Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth."

1686 "Republic of Both
Nations."

1701 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

1772 "POLAND after the
first partition."

1772 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

1793 "POLAND after the
second parition."

1795 "Baltic Lands." From
the 1903 "Atlas to Freeman's
Historical Geography"

1795 "POLAND."

1812 "Russian Campaign." Napoleon's Grand
Armee: advance and retreat through Lithuania.

1807-46 "Karte
kongresspolen."

1125 Karl Spruner von Merz: "Die Volker and Reiche der
SLAVEN Zwischen Elbe and Don." From Gotha's 1846
"Historisch- Geographer Hand Atlas." 1846. 16 x 11 inches /
41 x 28 cm. With DETAIL images of the east and west halves.

1772-1815 Conrad Malte-
Brun: "Carte Historique DE
LA POLOGNE, presentant
ses divers desmembremens
1772, 1794, 1795, 1807 et 1815." 1860. Also a DETAIL image.

9th ("Scholar's") ed.,
Encyclopedia Britannica:
"Kingdom of Poland, before
its union with Lithuania...
up to Napoleon I,"
published 1875-89.

1918-19

1919 - July 9, 1940

1920-39 Lithuanian
Republic.

1921-38

1939 - June 15, 1940

June 16, 1940 - June 21, 1941

July 22, 1941 - July 8, 1944

1918-45 Lithuania, from "Mokyklinis Lietuvos istorijos Atlasas, V-X Klasems," published by Pradai, Vilnius, 1997. (AK)

July 9, 1944 - January 28, 1945

1918-45 J. Andrius: "SUTARTI ZENKLAI"
(Lithuanian boundaries)

1772-95 Partitions.

Site Index

13th cent. Karl Spruner
von Merz. 1. "Die OST- SEE
LAENDER...im (13th
Cent)" 2. "... PREUSSEN
und LIVLAND, 1525-62."

"Carte de LITUANIE,"
published 1918. From
the National Museum of
Lithuania.

1772-1815 Joseph Meyer: "...POLEN..." 250 x 185 mm. From the
1849 "Meyer's Neuester Zeitungs Atlas," the first with insets of
cities. Also a DETAIL image of Wilna. AK

The history of the Balts by Marija Gimbutas

1919-39 Lithuanian
borders

1920 "THE RUSSIAN
BATTLEFRONTS,"
from "The People's Atlas," with fronts from 1914 - Armistice
Line, December 2, 1917. From London Geograhical Institute

1660-67 "POLEN"

18th Cent.
"RUSSIE ET
POLOGNE,"
from Vidal-
Lablache's 1912 "Atlas General Histoire et Geographie." Also two DETAIL images/

The United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point has an extensive collection of war-related maps at www.usma.edu. Below are DETAIL images of some maps that show what was happening in the Lithuanian area during World Wars I and II.

1914 Central Europe: Planned
Army Concentration Areas

1914: Operations on the
Eastern Front