For studying these maps, you may consult any reputable atlas (Abell Library has several), the maps in HC 114, or good internet maps. For historical maps, please see the Perry Castañeda Library maps website, esp. the Historical Maps Collection: https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/.

A very good online historical atlas of Europe that contains most of the following is:
https://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/1900/index.html

Or try Wikipedia. Many of these items can be found there.

 

Map Quiz 1--Study items

(For this one, all places mentioned are in the modern, current, locations. No need to consult historical maps for Quiz no. 1)

 

Adriatic Sea

Aegean Sea

Alps

Amsterdam

London

Austria (current)

Balkan Peninsula Baltic Sea Belgium

Berlin

Black Sea Budapest

Bulgaria

Carpathian Mts.

Cologne

Copenhagen

Crimean Peninsula

Moscow

Czech Republic Danube River

Dardanelles Strait

Dublin

Edinburgh

Estonia

Finland

Germany (current)

Greece

Gulf of Finland

Hamburg

Hungary

Istanbul Barcelona

Italy

Latvia

Leningrad

Lithuania

Bosporus Strait

Danube River

Switzerland

Rhine River

North Sea

Brussels

Paris

 

 

Map Quiz 2—Study items

(Some of these places are repeated from the first quiz)

 

Frankfurt (on the Main River)

Venice

Genoa (the city)

Sicily

Pyrenees Mountains

Bristol

Bucharest

Marseille

Croatia

Munich

Netherlands

Normandy

North Sea

Norway

Oder River

Elbe River

Poland (current)

Portugal

Albania

Romania

Rome

Seine River

Serbia

Siberia

Sicily

Stockholm

Sweden

Ukraine

Ural Mts.

Venice

Vienna

Vistula R.

Warsaw

Yalta

Kiev

Volga River

Alsace-Lorraine

Krakow

 

 

Map Quiz 3 Study Items

(Some of these will require historical map sources)

 

Leningrad/St. Petersburg

Northern Ireland

Hamburg

Helsinki

independent Ireland (after 1923)

Bosnia

Belarus

Lithuania

Latvia

Estonia

Finland

Minsk

Vilnius

Kaunas

Chernobyl

Gdansk/Danzig

Warsaw

Paris

Seine River

Berlin

Dresden

Cologne

Budapest

Barcelona

Catalonia (Spain)

Munich

Auschwitz/Oswencim/Oświęcim

Gulf of Finland

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Albania

Cyprus

Greece

Ukraine

Crimea

Dnieper River

Dniester River

Thames River

Glasgow