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One noticeable trend is that ethnic ties are represented by the many connections between Central Asia and Turkic centers of the former USSR like Ufa, Kazan, Baku, and Simferopol, as well as by external Turkic centers like Urumqi and Istanbul. It is…

panoramic view of the 17th century Salonika, seen from a boat in the Thermaic gulf

An illustration from Arthur Evans's 1877 book, Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot During the Insurrection, August and September 1875

A photograph of the young Vladimir Nabokov taken at KaDeWe, Berlin's department store, during his 6th year of exile, as the writer's handwritten caption indicates.

The Caucasus section of the Volkerkarte von Russland map.

This map of the city of Astrakhan' was produced by Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin and was included in the second volume (1774) of his work "Reise durch Russland zur Untersuchung der drei Natur-Reiche."

This visualization captures my walking patterns around Cambridge (it does not include driving, running, cycling, etc). The data was collected in Moves (an iphone app) and "put on the map" using move-o-scope (move-o-scope.halftone.co). The data set…

A page layout from Poland of Today