Maps
Four spatial views of the same record: how territorial control evolved across the contested districts, where the violence happened, what is left of the cultural heritage, and the demographic balance at a moment in time. The first reads as a chronology grid (because polygons that change every decade are illegible as a map); the other three are Leaflet base-layers with an editorial overlay.
Who controlled the disputed districts
Nine contested regions, eight epochs from Gulistan (1813) to the post-2023 settlement. Each row is a region; each column an epoch. Cell colour shows the controlling power. Reads left-to-right as a sovereignty trajectory, top-to-bottom as a comparison across regions.
Where the violence happened
Each pin is an event. Size scales with the casualty count (range midpoint). Atrocities are highlighted; non-atrocity events (battles, captures, ceasefires) are shown more quietly. Use the year range to focus on an era.
Cultural and religious heritage
Both peoples' heritage. Diamond colour shows the current state. Filter by whose heritage to compare.
Who lived where
Circles at major places. Colour shows the majority ethnicity at the selected year (latest snapshot at or before that year). Size scales with population. Click a circle for the full breakdown.
Base tiles: © OpenStreetMap & © CARTO. Boundary lines on the basemap are present-day. Figure 1 cells are sovereignty / de facto control as recorded in the atlas's territorial dataset; the granular within-region detail (e.g. parts of NK changing hands inside a single year of war) is not represented at this scale.