This article presents the possibilities of using geographic information systems (GIS) by scientists analysing the process of shaping administrative borders. This still evolving and perfected technology used for introducing, collecting, processing and visualising spatial data provides the researchers with previously unattainable possibilities of data analysis. It is certainly a milestone in historical research on geographic and cultural environments as it carries many new perspectives which not only pertain to analysing spatial data, but also map-making. The examined or presented space ceases to be a “colour agreed upon” on paper, and becomes a precisely localised area that can be seen in the old and contemporary form in multiple shots. With such possibilities, history, this synonym of passing time, becomes a living picture.