Atlas of Borders

3000 BCE

The first cities

Atlas of Borders · 3000 BCE → 2010s

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Borders: historical-basemaps by André Ourednik and contributors (GPL-3.0). Early borders are approximate; many ancient "territories" are zones of cultural influence, not fixed frontiers.