File:Colonisation 1959.png

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Map of major world powers by year, derived from public domain animated map on wikipedia.

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	Maps of colonization history 1492 · 1550 · 1600 · 1660 · 1754 · 1800 · 1812 · 1822 · 1885 · 1898 · 1914 · 1920 · 1936 · 1938 · 1945 · 1959 · 1974 · 1975 · 2007 Animated Map
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Date

22 March 2007

Source

public domain animated map by ArdadN here

Author

ArdadN

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:16, 6 July 2016	1,425 × 625 (37 KB)	Maproom	Removed various borders and recoloured various territories, to show 1959 rather than modern statuses, in accordance with request at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop#Empires_of_the_World_-_1959
	19:03, 14 October 2014	1,425 × 625 (37 KB)	AmbroiseL	Divided Germany does not appear as an united land on the map anymore.
	13:29, 28 July 2012	1,425 × 625 (59 KB)	Faunas	Spanish Morocco was a colony only until 1956, so I corrected a mistake in the map indicating the territory was a colony in 1974. Also, I corrected the colony in the São Tomé e Principe territory; it was always a Portuguese territory, not Spanish, but...
	14:24, 24 January 2012	1,425 × 625 (57 KB)	Wester	Congo and Nigeria were still colonies in 1959
	01:12, 30 April 2010	1,425 × 625 (77 KB)	Kieran4	Dutch retained some of Indonesia until 1962.
	14:50, 2 September 2009	1,425 × 625 (66 KB)	Roke~commonswiki	noted errors
	10:41, 22 March 2007	1,425 × 625 (66 KB)	Roke~commonswiki	{{Information \|Description=Map of major world powers by year, derived from public domain animated map on wikipedia. {{Maps of world history}} As the orriginal licence of the animation was Public Domain, this image which has been derived from it is too: {