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Two centuries later Guillaume le Vasseur, sieur de Beauplan became one of the more prominent cartographers working with Ukrainian data. His 1639 descriptive map of the region was the first such one produced, and after he published a pair of Ukraine maps of different scale in 1660, his drawings were republished [by whom?] throughout much of ...
- 10 – 9. Different Views on The Soviet Union in 1941
- “Das Europaeische Russland Mit Den Angränzenden Ländern in Europa U. Asien“
- Map of Post Offices in The Russian Empire
- “Theatrum Belli Russorum Victoriis Illustratum […]”
- “Ukraine und Kaukasien 1918”
- “Taurica Chersonesus Nostra Aetate Przecopsca et Gazara Dicitur”
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Both of these maps of Russia were issued in Belgium in the same year. The first map was printed by the Brussels editing house De Rouck, which is well known for its maps, the second was published by the printing house Beyaert-Sioen in Kortrijk. Although both maps date from the year 1941 they paint a very different picture of the Soviet Union. The Br...
This map shows the 40 governorates or provinces (gubernia) of European Russia in the first half of the 19th century. The governorates have each received a number. On the top left we find the glossary. Number 27 points to Ukraine which is then a part of Little Russia. The present-day Ukraine covers several provinces, including 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31...
This map of post offices and routes allows a glance at the new borders of the Russian Empire following the Russo-Ottoman war of 1877-78. The map shows the distribution of post officesin the Russian Empire. The distances between the offices are indicated. Mail was delivered by horse, and both horse and rider had to be relieved at regular intervals, ...
Lotter Tobias Conrad (1717-1777) from Augsburg is the publisher of this map of the Ukrainian region. This edition dates from after 1757. As the title states, it is an exact depiction of the Turkish and Tatarian territories between the Niester and the Danube, and in the Crimea. This area is – still according to the title – the theatre of the war whi...
His linguistic map of 1918 shows the linguistic and therefore cultural unity of the young republic of Ukraine. It provides an overview of the languages spoken in the region around the Black Sea and indicates the new borders between the different countries in the region as they were decided by the signatories of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The trea...
Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) is renowned for his atlas, which includes this map. The toponym Taurica Chersonesus refers to the Greek colony Chersonesos (which is Greek for peninsula) in Taurica, today the Crimea. The region on the mainland that borders on the peninsula bears the same name. The toponym Tartaria Przecopensis is also used. It refers to...
You can contact us via maproom@kbr.be. 1 S. Seegel,Mapping Europe’s Borderlands. Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire, Chicago-London, 2012.
How Ukraine became Ukraine, in 7 maps. Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor. and. Gene Thorp. March 9, 2015 at 5:00 a.m. EDT. For the past year, Ukraine has been plunged into chaos. Mass protests against ...
Feb 24, 2022 · All you need is Lvov. The map shows the area gifted to Ukraine by Lenin in 1922 (in blue), which contains not just the rebel city of Luhansk, but a stretch of land all the way to the Black Sea ...
Mar 3, 2022 · A modern country. Ukraine’s modern history as an independent state amounted to a few tumultuous years of a shaky Ukrainian People’s Republic between the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 ...
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2 days ago · Ukraine, country located in eastern Europe, the second largest on the continent after Russia. The capital is Kyiv, located on the Dnieper River in north-central Ukraine. A fully independent Ukraine emerged only late in the 20th century, after long periods of successive domination by Poland - Lithuania, Russia, and the Union of Soviet Socialist ...
This interactive map complements the static control-of-terrain maps that ISW daily produces with high-fidelity. Interactive Map: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine ...
