File:1865 Spruner Map of Southern Italy and Sicily - Geographicus - ItaliaeSicilia-spruner-1865.jpg

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Karl Spruner von Merz: Italiae regiones I II III IIII, Sicilia.   (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 Edit this at Wikidata Munich Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q6186030
Title
Italiae regiones I II III IIII, Sicilia.
Description
English: A particularly interesting map, this is Karl von Spruner’s 1865 rendering of Southern Italy and Sicily in antiquity. This map covers southern Italy from Rome south as far as modern day Naples and Sicily, and east as far as Calabria. Like most of Spruner’s work this example overlays ancient political geographies on relatively contemporary physical geographies, thus identifying the sites of forgotten towns and villages, the movements of armies, and the disposition of lands in the region. This particular example includes ancient names for many notable regions and historical sites. Additionally, there are a total of five insets (clockwise from top right): Pompeii, Corsica and Sardinia, Campaniae Pars, Lacus Albanus, and Ager Romanus (vicinity of Rome). As a whole the map labels 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 the fine craftsmanship for which the Perthes firm is known.
Date 1865 (undated)
Dimensions height: 16 in (40.6 cm); width: 13 in (33 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,16U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,13U218593
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Geographicus link: ItaliaeSicilia-spruner-1865
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Spruner, Karl von, Spruner-Menke Atlas Antiquus,, (Gotha: Justus Perthes), 1865.

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