1727 map of Denmark

1727 map of Denmark - by Matthaeus Seutter

1717 map of Scandinavia and the Baltic region - by George Willdey

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1895 map of Denmark and its territories

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‘There is something about these maps that… I dont know, just make them better looking then what we have today. So classy and stuff. Anyway, interesting to see how Denmark saw itself in those days. And weird seeing Iceland as a “territory” i know it was one, but seeing it in history is kinda weird, to used to see it as a independent country’–NobleAzorean

1872 map of Denmark

7004 × 8741

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‘For some reason the island Ven (Hveen on the map, NE of Copenhagen) in the sound is colored as being a part of Denmark, even though it has been Swedish for 200 years at the time of the map. Mistake, or was there a movement to not accept the loss of the island?’–OldGriffin

Map of Scandinavia (1555)

1200 × 1866

River basins of Scandinavia and the Baltic states

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‘Out of Nordics, Sweden has the largest lake (Vänern; 5545km²) and Finland the second-largest (Saimaa, 4400km²). These are the largest and second-largest lakes in Europe (excluding Russia’s Ladoga; 18130km² and Onega 9700km²). Finland used to have half Ladoga before WW2. The Caspian Sea (371000km²) is in Asia and is the largest lake in the world … This guy lakes’

The Dogs of Scandinavia (1892)

1481 x 2386

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‘The reason Norway is muffled by the Swedish dog there is that Norway was under a Union with sweden at that time and had no say in foreign matters’–Tronderbart

Military map of the Danish Island of Als (1851)

Military map of the Danish Island of Als – drawn at the conclusion of the 1st War of Schleswig-Holstein in 1851 ; produced in the outbreak of the 2nd Schleswig-Holstein war in 1864

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