r/papertowns

: "Baron Town (Fictional)"

: "Timişoara/Temesvár, circa 1700, when the city was part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1716, it would be conquered by the Habsburgs. Modern-day Romania. Illustration by Radu Oltean."

: "Times Square (New York, USA) between 1904 and 2050"

: "Bergen in the Middle Ages, when it was the capital of Norway"

: "A depiction of an imaginary castle set in 15th century England, by Eggman"

: "Nizhny Novgorod fair on a 1896 lithograph and its 1903 map. Held during summer, it could gather as many as 200.000 people, ten times larger than the town's population. The fair was closed by the Bolsheviks in 1930. [Russia]"

: "Castle of the Teutonic Order in Riga (Latvia) at the beginning of the 16th century. Illustration by Peter Dennis."

: "Reconstruction of Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia that prospered in 13th-14th centuries. More info in the comments."

: "Reconstruction of Stockholm in the Late Middle Ages. Source in the comments. [Sweden]"

: "Bird’s eye view of Rome (Italy) in 1890"

: "Roman Londinium (London, UK) by Peter Froste (from recent Guardian article)"

: "Reconstruction of Rohatyn (Ukraine) during the Middle Ages. More info in the comments."

: "Minsk, capital of Belarus. depicted by Mai Dantsig (1930-2017)"

: "Chişinău/Kishinev, Moldova, depicted in 1898, when it had approximately 100,000 inhabitants. At the time the city was the centre of Bessarabian Governorate of the Russian Empire. The engravings reflect the roughness and misery that marred Chişinău at the end of the 19th century."

: "Adenstedt, Germany, 1966."

: "My oil painting of Lyon, France."

: "Reconstruction of Aarhus (Denmark) during the Viking Age"

: "Peiping (Beijing), China, 1936."

: "Roman villa in Mersch, Luxembourg. Circa 1st century AD."

: "The medieval Dublin quays (Ireland)"

: "Reconstruction of Torun (Poland) as it might have looked in the 15th century, when the town's population reached 15.000 inhabitants."

: "View of Timbuktu in 1858 and its 1896 map. In the 13-16th centuries the city was a focal center of Trans-Saharan trade that hosted a population of up to 100.000 people, and an important place of science and scholarship. After the Moroccan conquest of 1591, the phase of decay began. Modern-day Mali."

: "Tampere, Grand duchy of Finland, 1904"

: "1857 lithograph of Kano and its 1836 map. The city was founded in the Middle Ages and subsequently served as residence of various rulers. Traveler Heinrich Bath, who visited Kano in 1851, described it as an important center of commerce and manufacturing, with a population reaching 30.000. [Nigeria]"

: "Town of Gabrovo (Bulgaria) in 1885, depicted by Felix Philipp Kanitz"

: "Fortified settlement of Bozok in modern-day Kazakhstan, that existed (approximately) during the 10th-12th centuries. It was discovered in 1998."

: "Perspective map of the City and Valley of Mexico (Mexico City). 1906."

: "Valetta, Malta in the late 18th century"

: "Vilnius/Vilna (Lithuania) in 1800s, depicted by Józef Peszka (1767-1831)"

: "Cardiff, Wales, in 1833"

: "Tile work of a panorama of Lisbon done before the 1755 earthquake, around the early 18th century. Currently at the National Tile Museum in Lisbon, Portugal."

: "Lake Balaton, Hungary - mixed media. I drew it in 1991 and digitalized, modified, and colorized it in 2022. A small section of my Hungary map."

: "Havana Fortus; plate from 'Costumes of Various Countries' by Johannes de Ram - The image shows a Dutchman in European dress holding a branch of dates and a woman in native dress. In the background is the city of Havana in Cuba, circa 1680"