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Ethno Linguistic Mapf of Ukraine - Minorities and Languages in Ukraine

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The map below might help to tell Ukraine's story. Ethnic Ukrainians Mostly Ukrainian-speaking, Predominantly Ukrainian-speaking, Mostly Russian-speaking, Predominantly Russian-speaking, Carpathian Ukrainians. Ethnic Russians and Other Ethnic Minorities Russians, Moldavians, Romanians , Hungarians, Bulgarians.

Map of The Hanseatic League - Main Trading Routes

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The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe. It stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland between 13th and 17th centuries. Main cities on the route were; Novgorod, Riga, Danzig, Visby, Falsterbo, Lubeck, Hamburg, London, Brugge. Hansa Teutonica, Liga Hanseatica

Zeppelin - LZ 18

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The German Zeppelin LZ 18, at Berlin - Johannistal Airfield, 1913 This Zeppelin was used by The Imperial German Navy German Zeppelin What is LZ 18? What happened to LZ 18?

Island of Chios by Piri Reis

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This is a16th-century map of Chios, an island in Greece (Aegean Sea) on the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation) of Piri Reis (Ottoman admiral, geographer, and cartographer)

The Massacre of the Giustiniani at Chios

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The Massacre of the Giustiniani at Chios (dated firsy half of 18th Century), by Francesco Solimena, an Italian painter of the Baroque era. It's now in Museo di Capodimonte (Nastional Muzeum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy)

Vertumnus

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter and he produced this gorgeous painting, Vertumnus, in Milan (1590-1591). Vertumnus is Arcimboldo's most famous work. It is a portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. Vertumnus is the Roman god of metamorphoses in nature and life.  At the moment the painting is part of the collection at Skokloster Castle in Sweden.

Royal Seal of Eric of Pomerania

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This is the Royal Seal of the first Nordic Kalmar Union King Eric of Pomerania.  Its dating 1398-1435 The Kalmar Union (Union of Calmar - Kalmarunionen - Unio Calmariensis) was a state that brought together the Scandinavian nations Norway, Denmark and Sweden from 1397 to 1523 Seal of Nordic Kalmar Union

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