A map of Europe in 1820, made by EOSGIS for Amikejo Spektaklo. It goes with a curious story from those years: that of the small neutral territory of Moresnet.
This map shows Europe in 1820, five years after the Congress of Vienna. It uses the Robinson projection and shaded relief. It stretches from Iceland to Persia and from the Barents Sea to North Africa. It shows the United Kingdom, France, Spain, the Ottoman Empire, Russia, Persia, Turan, Morocco, Egypt, Nejd and the Ottoman regions of Algiers, Tunis, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica.
Zoom in to read the names of rivers, mountain ranges, seas and cities. They appear in English and Dutch (for example, Rhein/Rijn or Volga/Wolga).
We made it for Amikejo Spektaklo, and it comes with a story from the period: that of Moresnet. After the Congress of Vienna, Prussia and the Netherlands could not agree on this small territory, where there was a zinc mine. The Treaty of Kelmis (1816) left it under shared administration, making it a neutral territory of just over 3 km². It stayed that way until 1920, when the Treaty of Versailles assigned it to Belgium. In the early twentieth century there was even a project to turn it into "Amikejo", an Esperanto-speaking state.
More information about the area: https://www.drielandenpunt.nl/
Published in CartoGrafia no. 1
