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SANSON, NICOLAS: CROATIA, BOSNIA AND HUNGARY

SANSON, NICOLAS: CROATIA, BOSNIA AND HUNGARY

Inventory number 419
Original title: Partie Meridionale du Rme de Hongrie
Publishing year: 1664
Place of publishing and publisher: Pierre Mortier, Paris
Format: 36 x 57,5 cm
Technique: Copper engraving with coloured boundaries

The map shows the area of the southern part of Hungary stretching all the way to the Sava River and includes the entire Zagorje, Slavonia and Zagreb. Zagreb (Zagrabia) was mistakenly located near Sisak, but Agram was also labeled at approximately the right place, east of Mokrice (this is an error that is repeated from Mercator's maps). Croatia covers the area south of Sava, up to the sea, but only from Žrnovica to Obrovac, while the islands and coastline from Nin to Šibenik are a part of Venetian Dalmatia. Bosnia is squeezed between Sava to the north and Drina in the west, while the eastern boundary begins at Jasenovac and extends south to the well of Krka River. Bosnia is separated from the sea in the south by the entire Herzegovina, i.e. Venetian Dalmatia, which points to the influence of Venetian cartography. Relief is still indicated in the form of mollehils, but forests, most of which are in Slavonia and along the northern coast of the Drava River, are marked in a particularly interesting way.

SANSON, NICOLAS
NICOLAS SANSON (1600-1667), one of the most important French cartographers of the early Modern World. He was the first one whom was given the title of a royal cartographer, and he is considered the father of French Cartography. He is also one of the first French cartographers who issued map images of the Croatian lands. The first Sanson's atlas appeared in 1654. The second one and the most famous of Sanson's atlases "Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde" appeared in 1658. The second edition of this atlas was published as early as in 1664.
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