MAPS OF HISTORY · HISTORY OF · Peru

ONE LAND · 3 ATLASES

Peru, on the map of history

What was Peru before it was Peru? 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.

Peru · The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848

The empire’s last bastion: viceroys ruled from Lima while juntas rose everywhere else, its elite fearing Andean revolt more than Spanish rule — the great Túpac Amaru rising (1780–83, ~100,000 dead) was the age’s forgotten precursor. Liberation had to be imported: San Martín by sea (1821), Bolívar and Sucre by land, until Ayacucho (1824) ended Spain’s mainland empire on Peruvian ground.

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Peru · The Great War, 1914–1918

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Peru · The Cold War, 1945–1991

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