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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
#Alexandria, 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. #maps #HarvardLibrary
From the Americas to the Iberian Peninsula and the great "City of the Three Cultures" loftily settled above the Tagus River: #Toledo. From a 1566 drawing by Hoefnagel in the 1572 German edition of the Civitates, with buildings topped in vivid reds & blues #maps #HarvardLibrary
#Freising. - "Frisingensis Episcopalis civitatis icon."
Wunderschön handkolorierte Ansicht der Stadt Freising
Kupferradierung aus: "Civitates Orbis Terrarium" von GHeorg #Braun und Frans #Hogenberg
Köln, 1572
#Freising in #Bavaria, #Germany
https://t.co/I0bmG5CxeE
Braun & Hogenbergs are marvelous! #Werden and #Essen
Published in "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Köln / Cologne, 1581 https://t.co/homZCpFDLe
The #Civitates were not legally distinct from the #tribal region in which they lay. This was reflected in the name. #Cirencester for example was #Corinium #Dobunnorum, 'Corinium of the Dobunni people'. The meaning of Corinium is unknown. #romanbritain #Roman #Archaeology 2/2