An interactive globe plotting every battle and siege that Wikidata records with coordinates — 14,318 of them — each label sized by how many Wikipedia language editions cover it. Selecting a battle opens its Wikipedia summary, images and participants.
Battle data
Wikidata,
dedicated to the public domain under
CC0.
Article text and images
Wikipedia, text under
CC BY-SA 4.0.
Images from Wikimedia Commons;
each carries its own author and licence, shown on the image.
Satellite imagery
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016
by EOX IT Services GmbH,
containing modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016, under
CC BY 4.0.
Borders and place names
Map data © OpenStreetMap
contributors, available under the
Open Database Licence.
© OpenMapTiles.
Tiles and fonts served by OpenFreeMap.
Rendering
MapLibre GL JS,
© MapLibre contributors, BSD-3-Clause.