Historical battle map — 14,318 battles and sieges plotted worldwide

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.

Click any battle to read it · right-drag to tilt