For the entire material Wikimedia Commons has concerning that period, please refer to category:Early Middle Ages. This page is meant to deliver a chronological view upon a set of maps, as used in a Wikiproject on the encyclopedic environment. Outside of Europe geography, Early Middle Ages historical period makes no sense ! Germanic Iron Age describes Northern Europe outside roman scope.
The main purpose for this page is to give a visual geographic reference regarding the rise, evolution and fall of countries in Europe from Antiquity to the Modern era. The birth of the modern European nation-state is a later phenomemon (generally evolved from the 17th century Peace of Westphalia, to the rise of modern European nationalism in the mid 1800's.)
Borders for most historical maps are largely arbitrary and in many cases are merely approximate.
Europe AD400 : Huns move from the East & will enter Germania. Goths splitted (Tervingen / Greuthungen) & feld through roman provinces.
400-410 : Roman Britain, see Old maps of the United Kingdom Europe AD450 - all of a sudden, the Empire of the Huns has risen over Germania + . .Vandals had settled in Carthage and built up a fleet ; in 455, led by Geiseric they invade the sea and heavily sack Rome.
Maps of Roman Gaul still accurate to describe where foederati people settle : Franks in Belgica, Visigoths in Aquitanica, Burgundi in East Gallia.
Ostrogothic Kingdom during the reign of Theodoric. He took Italy from usurper Odoacer after a battle in 493. Formerly Ostrogoths were massed in diocesis Illyricum.
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Acme of Visigothic kingdom around 500. Franks are to take over former Gallia Aquitania during Battle of Vouillé, 507.
Britain divided by kinglets at the brink of 6th Century.two maps (AD526 ; AD600) : Migrations period ended in Western Europe (yet, a follow-up concerns the Byzantine Empire in Eastern parts) .
Justinian reconquers parts AD527 to AD565; end of Vandals' kingdom & Ostrogothic kingdom. Andalucia retaken to the visigoths.
Same as previous map, year 550. Roman Hispania conquered at the death of Justinian, 565AD.Dark Age of Camelot around 600 recovers a time of legends as Anglo-Saxon heptarchy compete & Brython tribes offer resistance.
Natives & Anglo-Saxons settlements, 600. Compare with previous 800 : three powers compete at the shores of Mediterranea (source). 802 : "Medieval" Britain started - same map in WP:FR, 800 . Carolingian Empire 814AD rules in the West + Central Europe, at the death of Charlemagne. Identified powers in this World, around 820AD. [ use ]. Map of Europe in 814, at the death of Charlemagne and KrumCarolingian Empire, now Western Empire treaty of Verdun AD843 splited the heritage between kin brothers.
"Western Empire" split by treaty of Meerssen in (AD870). Ye ole map of Saxon England, as seen from the Chronicle (not dated, ed. 1830) Crowned 893 , tsar Simeon the Great expands his Bulgarian Empire. The Great Heathen Army of 865. Establishment of the Danelaw. The Great Army of 892. The Capture of the Danelaw by Wessex 902-920. Scandinavian name places in England. Map of Europe in 900Political map of Europe 1000AD : though Speculation that the world will end in the year 1000 is confined to a few uneasy French monks, their views concerning An mil & later An de grâce (since the apocalypsis didn't came) became later dominant.
Europe 1092AD High Middle Ages countries in Europe. See the difference with Late antiquity provinces 1097 : situation of Europe at the First Crusade. 1100 : peoples dwelling in Scotland (Source map in English) First founded crusader states in w:1100AD [ Commons category 12th century CE ] around 1150 : birth of Finland begin with various settlements 1142AD : left frame zooms on Frankish states in Levant, as were their fisrt names.Northmannii settle kingdoms and pursue conquests for their own : in the 12th century, they founded the kingdom of Sicily (& later Napoli), taken from the Moors.
Known world as seen in 1154 by Al-Idrisi : works in Sicily & offers an atlas to his new northman ruler. Mappa Mundi still accurate til the Age of Discovery
< COMPARISONVision of Earth in the Middle Ages traces back to Isidore of Seville copies in monasteries. Still used in that first printed version, T and O map (Guntherus Ziner, Augsburg, 1472).
Gengis Khan empire - fr map1360 : Castillan Reconquista, that just added Murcia taifa, pauses for a century ; Crown of Aragon completes its own Reconquista with Valencian territories. Sole kingdom of Granada remains Nasrid :
2 yrs later Muhammed V starts achieving the Alhambra.
