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Reason: This map claims to depict various continental boundaries used up to the 1920s; however, even a quick search of this website reveals this isn’t accurate, especially with regard to the Caucasus. For example, here’s an Austrian map from 1892 published by Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, which includes the entire Caucasus in Europe. Also, this British physical map of Europe from the turn of the century goes even further. Also this Russian map from 1874 at the British Library. There’s clearly ample precedent of various lines drawn through the Caucasus. It seems arbitrary that this particular map excludes them but includes others and doesn't explain reasoning, which is misleading

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Description	English: The factual accuracy of this map or the file name is disputed. Please see: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Historical_Europe-Asia_boundaries_1700_to_1900.png Historical conventions for the boundary between Europe and Asia, from maps published between 1700 and 1920 (note that maps from before the late 16th century cannot show a clear delineation for the northern part of the boundary, as the Arctic Ocean (Nova Zemlya, Sea of Kara etc.) was not known to cartographers). Europe Asia Territory which has historically been placed in either Europe or Asia the red line shows the modern convention following the crest of the Greater Caucasus, the Ural River, and the Urals range. This has been the mainstream convention since about 1850, illustrated by e.g. Johnson (1861). Line A shows an alternative modern convention illustrated e.g. by Beach and McMurry (1914). The convention follows the Don and Manych Rivers, placing the Russian Caucasus Viceroyalty in Asia. line B follows the Don River until Volgograd (continued under D or C, depending on convention) line C follows the Volga from Volgograd until Samara, continued under E or F depending on convention line D follows the Don past Volgograd, cutting north overland to Archangelsk staying west of the Volga. This convention is found in the first official atlas of the Russian Empire, published in 1745. line E follows the Volga until the Samara bend, and then cuts northwest to the Northern Dvina, ending at Archangelsk. This convention is used by Christoph Weigel in his Asia Vetus map, published 1719. line F leaves the Volga at the Samara bend, cutting to the lower Irtysh and the Ob River. Used by Johann Baptist Homann in his Recentissima Asiae Delineatio, published 1730. lines G and H: John Cary in his New Map of Asia (1806) follows the Don and the Volga (B, C, F), but then cuts across to the Urals south of Perm (G) and leaves the Ural watershed, reaching the coast of the Arctic Ocean west of the Yugorsky Peninsula (H) line I: follows the river Aras in the east and the former Ottoman-Russian border in the west, as depicted on this 1874 map.
Date	11 April 2011, 08:33 (UTC)
Source	Europe_polar_stereographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary.svg
Author	Europe_polar_stereographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary.svg: *Blank_map_of_Europe_(polar_stereographic_projection)_cropped.svg: Ssolbergj derivative work: Dbachmann (talk) derivative work: Dbachmann (talk)
Other versions	Image:TransAsia m.png, File:TransAsia m2.png

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:23, 9 January 2023	309 × 562 (75 KB)	Iktsokh	Removed black dots
	12:24, 16 November 2022	309 × 562 (75 KB)	Рагин1987	Correction of national borders
	11:34, 16 November 2022	309 × 562 (75 KB)	Рагин1987	I've tried
	05:03, 16 November 2022	309 × 562 (75 KB)	Aunyu	Map is incomplete, significant areas missing
	04:44, 16 November 2022	309 × 562 (78 KB)	Chipmunkdavis	Reverted to version as of 01:32, 16 November 2022 (UTC) That is definitely violating some copyright licence
	02:37, 16 November 2022	729 × 1,129 (207 KB)	Aunyu	More comprehensive and accurate
	01:59, 16 November 2022	309 × 562 (75 KB)	Aunyu
	01:32, 16 November 2022	309 × 562 (78 KB)	Chipmunkdavis	Reverted to version as of 01:40, 15 November 2022 (UTC) Per talk
	03:46, 15 November 2022	309 × 562 (75 KB)	Aunyu	This line is not "unfinished", it just follows a river, which happens to begin where it begins. I can't change where the river begins or the fact that it has been used as continental demarcation
	01:40, 15 November 2022	309 × 562 (78 KB)	Chipmunkdavis	Reverted to version as of 15:27, 13 November 2022 (UTC) That line is not the same as the one on File:Соловьёв (1874) p359.jpg