Euratlas-Info 16:
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Search
and find
the answer in
the Europe
Photos section
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Which lake is it?
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1) The countries in the Physical Atlas of Europe
Now,
you can highlight a country by clicking on its name and display its
position on the whole map of Europe. For each country, you will get the
following information: English and local name in short and long form,
capital city, area, population and average life expectancy. Links
towards the corresponding Wikipedia entry and the country's official
website are also provided. You will see also an interesting page about the
special status territories like Transnistria, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh
etc. See the explanation for more details.
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2) Alpine and Danube Lands about 1715
We are presenting an old map
of Central Europe, extending from the Upper Danube basin with Dalmatia
to the Northern Adriatic Sea with the Eastern part of the Alps. No
place, no date, one sheet wears the mention "Elias Boeck a. H.
sculps. a. V."
Elias Boeck or Baeck, alias Heldenmuth (= a. H.), was an engraver and publisher born
in 1679, active in Rome, Venice, Laibach or Ljubljana and Augsburg or
Augusta Vindelicorum (= a.V.) between 1705 and 1747. That is why this
map which shows the main towns, rivers and mountains ranges of modern
Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Eastern Switzerland can be
dated from about 1715. Note that this area was the "front line" between
the Holy German Empire and the Ottoman Empire and a special care has
been brought to the description of the fortified towns.
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3) Europe Photos
The Europe Photos section has been increased again and displays now more than 1000
pictures. You will find new pages with nice images of Croatia and Slovenia.
Moreover large size photos have been added in the Euratlas-Info protected area and you are welcome to download them freely.
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4) Atlas der islamischen Welt
We
are happy to sell, in the Euratlas Shop, a new atlas by Dr Andreas
Birken on a red hot subject: 119 pages, 96 highly detailed maps and
several charts on geography, peoples, history, politics, and economy of
the
Islamic World from 622 to 2007 A.D.
The atlas is available only in
German, but this should not be a great difficulty for those who are used to reading maps.
Cartographic documents about Islam are scarce or inaccurate. So this atlas will fill in a gap.
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5) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
Visit again and let know the Euratlas-Info area. You will find there two large engravings: the1808
frontispice of the Atlas historique by Emmanuel de Las Cases showing
the Napoleonic Fasti and a XVIIIth century map of Switzerland. These
documents are offered in high resolution and you can print them with a
good quality.
To get Euratlas-Info maps you must click on the download
link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.
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Next month we will present more old maps useful for historians and the Atlas historique et généalogique by Emmanuel de Las Cases, alias Lesage.
Yours sincerely
Euratlas - C. Nüssli, May 2007
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