Back in time
The Ottoman Empire
Open the map in 1683, the year of the second siege of Vienna, when the empire reached deep into Europe, then play on through its long retreat to 1922.
Open the live mapWhat you see
- The empire’s borders and its neighbours’ in any year.
- The wars it fought, as they began.
- Click the empire for its Wikipedia article.
Where the data comes from
- Seshat CliopatriaWorld borders year by year, from 3400 BCE to 2024.
- Event recordsCorrelates of War, UCDP, the Global Terrorism Database, NOAA hazards, SIPRI’s nuclear tests, UNESCO and Wikidata, among others.
Historical records are imported once and change rarely; they are updated when their sources publish new editions.
Good to know
- Borders are reconstructions: where they were vague or disputed, the map shows one reading of them.
- The live layers pause while History is open.
Goes well with
The Roman EmpireThe Roman Empire on an interactive historical map: its borders in 117 CE at their greatest extent, and how they grew and fell over the centuries.
The world in 1914The world in 1914 on an interactive map: the empires and borders on the eve of the First World War, then the war’s battles as they happened.
The world through historyAn interactive historical atlas: the world’s borders year by year from 3400 BCE, with wars, battles and other events from 7500 BCE, on a 3D globe.