ARMIES
 
Denmark-Norway
Holstein-Gottorp
Prussia
Russia
Saxony
Sweden

 
BATTLES

Narva 1700
Kliszow 1702
Fraustadt 1706
Lesnaya 1708
Poltava 1709
Helsingborg 1710
Gadebusch 1712
Stresow 1715

 

COLOURS & STANDARDS
 
Model Drawings of Colours

Preserved Colours in Museums

Colour Sheets for Miniatures Figures
 


Welcome to English Tacitus, a translation of selected parts of the original Swedish website which has existed since 2002. The English version consists of two distinct parts, a historical atlas which presents an overview of European history in the form of maps, population statistics and lists of regents. The other part covers the Great Northern War (1700-1721), with a strong emphasis on uniforms and colours.

The name of my website comes from the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. In AD 98 he was the first to mention a Germanic tribe called Swedes (Suiones). The topic of the site was from the beginning restricted to just the history of Sweden and I had also named the site "Svensk historia" (= Swedish history), but I thought it needed a more original name so I named it in honour of Cornelius Tacitus.

Many have wondered why the site uses the top-level domain ".nu" which belongs to the pacific island of Niue instead of the more logical Swedish top-level domain ".se.". Well, the reason to this is that my website is quite old and when I named the site after Tacitus the rules for ".se" domain names were very strict. A private person like me could not have the address "tacitus.se", instead I would have been forced to name the site "Tacitus.pp.se" ("pp" as in "private person") if I was going to use the ".se" domain. The difficulties in obtaining ".se" domain names had the result that the ".nu" domain became very popular among Swedes as "nu" happens to be the Swedish word for "now".

Örjan Martinsson

The image above is Pierre Mignard's (1612-1695) painting "Clio" from 1689. Clio (or Klio) was according to Greek mythology one of the nine muses and she was recognised as the muse aiding historians. Since 2009 an image depicting Clio has been the logotype of Tacitus.nu (upper inner corner on all pages except this one).
 

MAPS
 
Roman Empire
Frankish Kingdom
Austria
Prussia
Europe
European Union

Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden
POPULATION

British Isles
Benelux
Western Europe
Scandinavia
Germany
Central Europe
Italy
Baltic
Eastern Europe
Western Balkans
Eastern Balkans

REGENTS

British Isles
Benelux
France
Iberian Peninsula
Italy
Central Europe
Germany
Scandinavia
Baltic
Poland
Eastern Europe
Balkans