Zschopau. - "Scopa vulgo Schuepa Elegans Misniae civitas"
Scopa, Zschopau, Schuepa, Sachsen, Erzgebirge, Motorradmuseum, Schloss Wildeck
Altkolorierte Kupferradierung aus "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"
von Georg Braun (1541-1622) und Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590)
Köln, 1617

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Egypt, 1400 years after the Greek astronomer/geographer/astrologer Claudius Ptolemy pondered the heavens and earth, here presenting the Mediterranean city's ancient ruins and grand contemporary edifices; from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1575.

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From the Americas to the Iberian Peninsula and the great "City of the Three Cultures" loftily settled above the Tagus River: From a 1566 drawing by Hoefnagel in the 1572 German edition of the Civitates, with buildings topped in vivid reds & blues

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- "Frisingensis Episcopalis civitatis icon."
Wunderschön handkolorierte Ansicht der Stadt Freising
Kupferradierung aus: "Civitates Orbis Terrarium" von GHeorg und Frans
Köln, 1572
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Braun & Hogenbergs are marvelous! and
Published in "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Köln / Cologne, 1581 https://t.co/homZCpFDLe

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The were not legally distinct from the region in which they lay. This was reflected in the name. for example was 'Corinium of the Dobunni people'. The meaning of Corinium is unknown. 2/2

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