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Description
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This Detailed map example of the Turkish Empire at its height including territories in Balkans, Anatolia, Levant, North Africa, Extends from Sicily and Italy in the West to the Black & Caspian Seas in the North and the Gulf of Aden, Red Sea and Saudi Arabia peninsula in the South and centered on Cyprus. Willem Janszoon started the map publishing business of the Blaeu family in Amsterdam in 1599. With the Mercator plates he acquired, he published Atlantis Appendix in 1630 and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1635. After his death, his son Joan Blaeu (1596 - 1673) published the Atlas Major which they have been working on. This Atlas is considered the most magnificent work of its kind., Relief shown pictorially., Bar scales given in "milliaria Germanica communia.", Note in lower left hand corner indicates it was printed by Jan Jansson, Main Heritage Compact General, HC.MAP.00033, Print Map, Item-ID: i11401370, BIB-ID: 1787640 |
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Coverage
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Scale [ca. 1:11,000,000], (E 10°0ʹ0ʺ--E 60°0ʹ0ʺ/N 46°0ʹ0ʺ--N 8°0ʹ0ʺ)., Turkey, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918, Balkan Peninsula, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula |
