Nathan Yau passes along a timelapse that animates centuries of European border changes – set to the music from Inception. The result is quality infotainment:
For more, check out The Centennia Historical Atlas. Update from a reader:
Nice map, but full of mistakes. One such: Yugoslavia shown as an entity in 1910. In 1910 it would be the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and still not officially recognized. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia is 1929. Federal Yugoslavia (the one everyone knows, which disintegrated in 1990) was a post-WWI creation. That is not a big difference in the major scheme of things, but still.
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