Everything behind the passages

The vault

Check a date, trace a map, or see it all at once.

The many TartarysGreat, Little, Chinese, Independent, Muscovite: when each name shows up, and when it stops.
Turn the dialOld maps laid on the real earth, one after another. Watch the name move.
Who counted as a Tartar?The same word, different peoples, century by century.
Who copied whomWhich maps copied, reissued or corrected which.
Every book and mapAll 303 written sources and 119 maps, in date order.
Every place356 places the sources name.
Who’s who138 peoples and powers the sources name.
How it was madeHow the dating, plotting, choosing and checking were done, and what the atlas does not claim.
Spot a mistake?Send a correction, and see the ones already made.