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Landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy of several thousand personnel — patrolling Lake Titicaca and waiting to reclaim the coastline it lost to Chile in 1884.
Bir Tawil, a patch of desert between Egypt and Sudan, is claimed by neither country — one of the only unclaimed pieces of land on Earth.
The Ottomans still held the Balkans and the Holy Roman Empire dominated the center — Europe before the age of nation-states.
The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed ~13,000 houses and 87 churches — yet the official recorded death toll was in single digits. Historians suspect many deaths simply went unrecorded.
In September 1914, the French army rushed ~5,000 soldiers to the Battle of the Marne in commandeered Paris taxis.
From Poland's 'Unity' to Russia's silence, the opening words of national anthems reveal a lot about national identity.
5/ Mehmed made Constantinople his capital, replacing Edirne. Notice how the Ottoman Empire already fills the Balkans on the map, with Serbia, Bosnia and Wallachia as the remaining buffers.
6/ In the far northeast sits Muscovy. The same year, a Tver writer was already calling Moscow heir to fallen Rome, an idea that grew into the 'Third Rome'. We'll map that claim next.
Is 1453 the end of the Middle Ages for you? Follow @forummapping for more maps like this.
Europe in 1453: the year a capital that had stood for over a thousand years fell. Look at who surrounds it on this map.
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3/ The Theodosian walls had protected the city for about 800 years. Gunpowder artillery finally broke them, including a giant cannon cast by Orban that could throw a stone ball weighing around 270 kg over a mile.
2/ The numbers were lopsided. Defenders totalled about 7,000, roughly 2,000 of them foreigners. Recent estimates put the Ottoman army at 50,000 to 80,000.
1/ Constantinople fell on 29 May 1453, after a 53-day siege that began on 6 April. The Ottoman sultan, Mehmed II, was only in his early twenties.
44 countries have no coastline. Two are double-landlocked (you must cross TWO countries to reach the sea): Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
In 1943, British intelligence dressed a corpse as a Royal Marines officer, gave it fake invasion plans, and floated it to a Spanish beach. Hitler moved divisions to Greece; the Allies landed in Sicily.
Some countries have millions more men than women, others the reverse. The global gender imbalance mapped.
Europe in 1618: a patchwork of empires and hundreds of small states, about to tip into 30 years of war. The map before the storm.
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6/ The toll: modern estimates run from 4.5 to 8 million dead, mostly civilians. Some German regions reported population drops of over half, though that includes people who fled.
Was this a religious war or a power struggle in disguise? Follow @forummapping for more maps like this.