MAPS OF HISTORY · HISTORY OF · Colombia
ONE LAND · 3 ATLASES
Colombia, on the map of history
What was Colombia before it was Colombia? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History collection — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
New Granada (mod. Colombia) · The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
New Granada: Bolívar’s pivot. Boyacá (1819) gave the revolution a state, Bogotá gave it a capital, and Gran Colombia (with Venezuela and Quito) gave it a short-lived super-state that fractured by 1830 — the Liberator dying en route to exile, writing that he had “ploughed the sea.” The gap between liberation and institution is this territory’s whole lesson.
| APR 1775 | Colonial possessions — the opening position |
| AUG 1819 | Republics & revolutionary states |
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Colombia · The Great War, 1914–1918
Colombia · The Cold War, 1945–1991
| AUG 1945 | US-aligned states — the opening position |
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