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Ortelius’ Southeastern Europe

Ortelius’ Map of Southeastern Europe

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Title:
Ortelius’ Map of Southeastern Europe

Date of publication:

  • 1595

    • Printed Measurement:

  • 36.5 x 50 cm

    • Publisher:

  • Plantin-Moretus

    • Colour:

  • modern

    • Mapmaker:

  • Abraham Ortelius

    • Romaniae, (quae olim Thracia dicta) Vicinarumque Regionum, uti Bulgariae, Walachiae, Syrfiae, etc. Descriptio

    This map shows the Lower Danube region and southeastern Europe, extending to the shores of the Black Sea, first published in a 1584 edition of the ‘Theatrum’. Read more

    Jacob Gastaldi is credited as the source (his two and four-sheet maps of the region appeared in 1559-60).

    Condition & Materials 

    Copper engraving, 36.5 x 50 cm, recent-hand-colour, Latin text on verso. Read less