Leptis Magna in the 3rd century AD, after its great expansion under the rule of Septimius Severus, who was a native of the city, Libya

Greek territories and colonies during the Archaic period (750–550 BC). Work of Dipa1965.

United States territorial expansion

The Balkans in 1410 amid the Ottoman Civil War (1402-1412)

Expansion of Russia by year, from 1300 to 1914

Expansion of the Roman empire

Expansion of Slavs in Europe

Europe during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (1559 AD). By Mehmed Esref (1913)

Expansion of the Mongol Empire.

Layout of Mycenae as it was during the time of Atreides rule and the Trojan War (~1250 BC)

A scenic view of the Siege of Florence in 1530, Italy

Panoramic view of Vienna during the first Turkish siege (1529). By Niklas Meldemann (1530)

The siege of Nicosia, Cyprus, by the Ottomans, drawn in 1573 by Simon Pinargenti

Phoenician, Greek, and Etruscan colonization in the Mediterranean

A reconstruction of Newark in 1646, a royalist stronghold in central England during the Civil War.

Heidelberg Castle, its Hortus Palatinus and the city down below – a painting dating from the onset of the Thirty Years' War, Germany

Afghanistan, Kabul from the Citadel, showing the old walled city, First Anglo-Afghan War 1838-1842 (James Atkinson 1842, lithograph)

The coats of arms of all EU states

Linguistic map of the Byzantine Empire (565 AD)

Strasbourg, France 1644. Four years before the end of the 30 years war, during which the city remained neutral but allowed armies to pass.