Historical Places.
Browse countries, regions, cities and historical places connected to the media timeline.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Nazi German concentration and extermination camp complex to which Jewish prisoners from occupied Poland were deported and murdered.
Egypt
The Roman province containing Alexandria and the wider administrative and cultural setting of the story.
Alexandria
Inside Egypt
The cosmopolitan Egyptian city where Hypatia taught and where the film’s religious and political conflicts unfold.
Europe
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Avignon
Inside Europe
The papal residence and administrative center whose authority frames the conference at the abbey.
England
Inside Europe
The kingdom attempting to exercise control over Scotland during the conflict.
France
Inside Europe
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Agincourt
Inside France
The northern French locality near which Henry V won his major victory on October 25, 1415.
Dunkirk
Inside France
Port city in northern France where Allied forces were surrounded and evacuated in May–June 1940.
Harfleur
Inside France
A Norman port besieged and captured by Henry V in September 1415.
Normandy
Inside France
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Omaha Beach
Inside Normandy
One of the five Allied landing beaches in Normandy and the site of the film’s opening battle.
Grunwald
Inside Europe
Site of the decisive 15 July 1410 battle between the Polish–Lithuanian coalition and the Teutonic Order.
Kraków
Inside Europe
Polish city and administrative center of the German occupation in which Schindler operated his enamelware factory.
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Inside Europe
The early modern federative state whose Crown of Poland territories are the main political and military setting of the story.
Scotland
Inside Europe
The kingdom whose political independence from England is the central issue of the narrative.
Sweden
Inside Europe
The principal setting of the film, represented as a medieval Christian kingdom confronted by the Black Death.
Volhynia
Inside Europe
A historical region in eastern Europe, largely within present-day northwestern Ukraine; during the film's opening it included the Polish Volhynian Voivodeship and was inhabited by Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish, and other communities.
Florence
The central city of the series and the seat of Medici influence during the Renaissance.
Japan
The principal setting, undergoing political centralization, military modernization, and the decline of the samurai order.
Jerusalem
The major political and religious center of Judea and the setting for much of the film’s story.
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Strategic fortress in Podolia, besieged and captured by Ottoman forces in 1672.
Kerak
A major crusader castle and lordship in Transjordan, historically associated with the lordship of Oultremer and the tensions preceding the 1187 campaign.
Khotyn
Fortress on the Dniester and site of the Commonwealth victory over the Ottoman army on 11 November 1673.
Kingdom of Jerusalem
The Latin Christian polity in the Levant where the film’s court politics, frontier warfare, and defense of Jerusalem unfold.
Hattin
Inside Kingdom of Jerusalem
The battlefield near the Sea of Galilee where Saladin defeated the main army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187.
Łódź
A major textile-manufacturing city in the Kingdom of Poland that experienced explosive industrial and demographic growth in the second half of the 19th century.
Milan
A leading Italian city-state involved in the balance of power and alliances affecting Florence.
Myeongnyang Strait
A narrow sea passage off the southwestern Korean Peninsula, where Yi Sun-sin used the currents and restricted waters to engage the larger Japanese fleet.
Nazareth
Galilean village traditionally associated with Jesus’s upbringing and early life.
Podolia
Southeastern region of the Commonwealth and the principal theater of the 1672 Ottoman campaign.
Rome
Capital of the Roman Empire.
Salzburg
Mozart’s birthplace and the seat of his former employment before he established himself independently in Vienna.
Venice
A major Italian city-state connected with Cosimo de’ Medici’s period of exile and with inter-state diplomacy.
Vienna
Habsburg imperial capital and the main setting for Mozart’s professional and personal life in the film.
Warsaw
Political center of the Commonwealth during the succession and mobilization period preceding the Ottoman invasion.