Centennia Historical Atlas

02/04/2026

Look for the "Centennia Historical Atlas" in the prestigious "New York Review of Books" :)

02/03/2026

Version 2025B recommended! If you have an earlier version, you should get this one. Resolves a long-standing and puzzling anomaly. :)
Visit https://historicalatlas.com for the latest.

02/19/2020

Ok. Why not...

A proud French region, home of Asterix, wants its flag in every phone

02/19/2020

Remember the Wall? Here's Europe in 1979 with East and West Germany highlighted (the "highlighting" capability has been restored in the latest version of the Centennia Historical Atlas).

02/13/2020

Have the Canary Islands?

Does your copy of the "Centennia Historical Atlas" include the Canary Islands? No?? Then you need to download an UPGRADE (both Windows and MacOS). And no, it's not because you desperately need to see the history of the islands, but that's an easy test to see if you need the latest update! :)
http://www.historicalatlas.com/download/

11/05/2019

THE COLD WAR ENDED
Thirty years ago this Saturday, November 9... The Berlin Wall opened, and the world changed overnight. Just over two years later, the USSR was dissolved.

And on August 1, 1990, less than a year after the wall opened, I launched a little project to make an "educational app" -- the Centennia Historical Atlas. It's now one of the longest-lasting apps in the tech world. Very likely the longest-lasting educational app. Got a Mac or a Windows device? Download the free version here: http://HistoricalAtlas.com/download/

Read more about the opening of the Berlin Wall:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50013048

The wave of revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe helped shape the continent for decades to come.

11/01/2019

Mac users: 64-bit version now available (properly "notarized" etc for MacOS "Catalina"). Get it here:

Europe and the Middle East 1000AD to the present, Windows and Mac

09/08/2019

Latest version of the "Centennia Historical Atlas", available on Amazon:

The CENTENNIA Historical Atlas is a map-based guide to the history of Europe and the Middle East from the year 1000AD to the beginning of the 21st century. Centennia displays today's complex geo-political events in the long view of historical perspective --the "long now". It is a dynamic, animated h...

01/25/2019

NORTH MACEDONIA.
The Greek Parliament has ratified the agreement! The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or "Slav Macedonia" as it's labeled in the "Centennia Historical Atlas" is about to become "North Macedonia".

It's been a big issue for both states. For Greece, the name Macedonia is viscerally, intimately attached to their classical history, the era of Alexander the Great, and the great "Hellenistic" period which followed during which Greek authority and culture ruled most of the Near East for centuries. That Macedonian history is a key element of the historical identity of Greece. In addition the northern province of Greece is named Macedonia, and it was a center of civil war immediately after WW2 when the new Communist regime under Tito in Yugoslavia supported revolutionaries in Greece.

For the little F.Y.R. Macedonia, the Slav population (there is also a large Albanian minority, a significant Turkish minority, and many others) had been taught and encouraged to think of themselves as a separate Macedonian ethnic nation with a separate language for most of the 20th century. By any objective measure of languages, Macedonian is Bulgarian. The official Macedonian language has only superficial differences from Bulgarian. Even calling it a dialect is a stretch. Most people in Macedonia know this, and that makes matters worse. They know they're defending a barely sustainable concept of ethnic identity. But they are what they THINK they are. And nothing can change that. It's been a hard pill for Greeks to swallow. But finally this compromise, imperfect like all compromises, has modified the name of Macedonia just enough to satisfy a thin majority of Greek lawmakers. Unless something goes badly wrong, North Macedonia will soon join NATO (as a minor member) and begin negotiations for EU membership, closing another chapter in the dissolution of Yugoslavia that began over a quarter of a century ago...

Greek lawmakers have ratified an agreement normalizing relations with Macedonia and ending a nearly three decades-long dispute over the name of Greece’s northern neighbor

01/20/2019

F.Y.R. MACEDONIA becomes
NORTH MACEDONIA ...but not without bitter protests in Greece.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Athens on Sunday, days before lawmakers vote on whether to ratify an agreement to rename the country’s northern neighbor North Macedonia.

12/22/2018

PLEASE SHARE:
Centennia Historical Atlas: DIY last-minute gift.

For more details on my "Centennia Historical Atlas", start at the top: http://HistoricalAtlas.com/. To get right to the instructions for the "Do-It-Yourself" gifting and packaging, go to:http://HistoricalAtlas.com/DIY/