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Karl Spruner von Merz: Pannonia, Illyricum, Dacia, Moesia, Thracia, Macedonia, Epirus.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Karl Spruner von Merz  (1803–1892)  wikidata:Q6186030 s:it:Autore:Karl Spruner von Merz
 
Alternative names
Karl von Spruner / Carl von Spruner
Description German cartographer and historian
Date of birth/death 15 November 1803 Edit this at Wikidata 24 August 1892 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Stuttgart Munich
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artist QS:P170,Q6186030
Title
Pannonia, Illyricum, Dacia, Moesia, Thracia, Macedonia, Epirus.
Description
English: This is Karl von Spruner’s 1865 map of Pannonia, Illyria, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, Macedonia, and Epirus, collectively known as “The Balkans”. This highly detailed map shows present day Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Northern Greece. Spruner also includes an inset in the lower-left quadrant showing Achaea (Achaia), an ancient province and a present prefecture of Greece. Shows names of ancient tribes and peoples and the areas they inhabited. Map includes two legends, one detailing “free states” (Civitates liberae) and one shows the disposition of the Roman Legions. Map notes important cities, rivers, mountain ranges and other minor topographical detail. Territories and countries outlined in color. The whole is rendered in finely engraved detail exhibiting throughout the fine craftsmanship of the Perthes firm.
Date 1865 (undated)
Dimensions height: 13 in (33 cm); width: 16 in (40.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,16U218593
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Geographicus link: Pannonia-spruner-1865
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Spruner, Karl von, Spruner-Menke Atlas Antiquus,, (Gotha: Justus Perthes), 1865.

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