Europe Time Machine

Drag a slider, watch Europe's borders shift through history

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Drag a slider, watch Europe's borders shift through history

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Watch Europe's borders shift through history. Drag the timeline from antiquity to today and see countries, empires, and disputed territories redraw the map.

Launch tags:Education•Travel•Maps

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Hey Product Hunt! I built Europe Time Machine because I kept wanting to see how a country's borders looked at a given point in history and couldn't find a tool that let me just drag a slider and watch it happen. It covers antiquity through today, with modern disputed territories (Crimea, Transnistria, Kosovo) shown as a separate layer so historical and present-day nuance don't get mixed up. Historical border data comes from Cliopatria/Seshat, modern/coastline data from Natural Earth. Built with React + MapLibre GL on the frontend and a Spring Boot backend. Would love feedback on which years or regions feel off — the historical data has some gaps.

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