Now that this project has crossed a big milestone in terms of number of colonies mapped and geographical area covered, it's time to take another look at the German settlements by founding year. I created this map and posted it about it over a year ago. It was updated last August, so it's time to revisit.
This has always been one of my favorite maps because it uses the data to tell the story through a visualization of the growth of colonies across the Russian Empire and parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And the story didn't end with the Russian Revolution. It slowed considerably, but it didn't end.
The map has been updated and sectioned into three groups. The first two were voluntary settlement or re-settlement. The third was forced re-settlement – deportation.
This is one of those maps that I find fun to zoom in and wander around in while clicking on pins. Note that not all of the colonies have founding/settlement dates, so not all are on the map. After adding another 1000+ colonies over the course of the year, still only 50% of them have settlement dates.
The lightest green pins were the earliest colonies in the empires with later colonies becoming progressively darker green.
The purple pins are those established after the Revolutions and roughly divided into before and right as collectivization began to be enforced.
This has always been one of my favorite maps because it uses the data to tell the story through a visualization of the growth of colonies across the Russian Empire and parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And the story didn't end with the Russian Revolution. It slowed considerably, but it didn't end.
The map has been updated and sectioned into three groups. The first two were voluntary settlement or re-settlement. The third was forced re-settlement – deportation.
- Settlements during the time of Imperial Russia from Catherine the Great up to the Russian Revolution (1763-1917).
- Settlements after the Russian Revolution until deportations began (1917 - approximately 1935).
- Deportation location areas.
This is one of those maps that I find fun to zoom in and wander around in while clicking on pins. Note that not all of the colonies have founding/settlement dates, so not all are on the map. After adding another 1000+ colonies over the course of the year, still only 50% of them have settlement dates.
The lightest green pins were the earliest colonies in the empires with later colonies becoming progressively darker green.
The purple pins are those established after the Revolutions and roughly divided into before and right as collectivization began to be enforced.
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