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Correct Map of Europe from the Best Authorities (1758)
Description
Highly detailed copper engraved map of the European Continent published in 1758.
Cities appearing in the map: Cyprus: Nicosia ; Israel: Jerusalem ; Lebanon: Tripoli ; Syria: Damascus, Aleppo, and Rakka (Ar-Raqqah) ; Iraq: Anah, Baghdad, and Musol (Mosul) ; Portugal: Lisbon and Oporto (Porto) ; Spain: Merida (Mérida), Cordova (Córdoba), Seville, Granada, Murcia, Toledo, Valencia, Vigo, St. Jago (Santiago de Compostela), Groyn (A Coruña), Leon (León), Madrid, Bilboa (Bilbao), Burgos, Saragosa (Zaragoza), Tortosa, and Barcelona ; Gibraltar: Gibraltar ; Italy: Cagliari, Messina, Turin, Genoa, Lucca, Florence, Rome, Milan, Trent (Trento), Venice, and Trieste ; Turkey: Smyrna (İzmir), Satalia (?, site of two battles in 1212 and 1361), Kutayeti (Kütahya), Kogni (Konya), Kaysaria (Kayseri), Alexandretta (İskenderun), Malataya (Malatya), Sivas, Bir (Birecik), Dyarbekr (Diyarbakır), Arzerum (Erzurum), Wan (Van), Adrinople (Edirne), Constantinople (Istanbul), Angari (Ankara), Amasia (Amasya), Trebisond (Trabzon), and Kars ; France: Bayon (Bayonne), Bourdeaux (Bordeaux), Tolouse (Toulouse), Narbon (Narbonne), Avignon, Marseilles (Marseille), Grenoble, Toulon, Bastia, Brest, l'Orient (Lorient), Caen, Rennes, Nantes, Rochelle (La Rochelle), Havre de Grace (Le Havre), Rouen, Paris, Orleans (Orléans), Dijon, Lyons (Lyon), Strasburg (Strasbourg), Nancy, and Dunkirk ; Bosnia and Herzegovina: Saray (Sarajevo) ; Croatia: Ragusa (Dubrovnik) ; Albania: Durazzo (Durrës) ; Greece: Salonica (Thessaloniki) ; Bulgaria: Sofia, Varna, and Nicopoli (Nikopol) ; Russia: Kabarty, Derbent, Kabarty (?), Asof (Azov), Panchin (?), Zaritza (Volgograd), Krasnoyar, Astrakan (Astrakhan), Soleternoy (Selitrennoye), Koningsberg (Kaliningrad), Bielgorod (Belgorod), Oskol (Stary Oskol), Woronitz (Voronezh), Tarvraw (?), Saratof (Saratov), Samara, Petersburg (Saint Petersburg), Novogrod (Veliky Novgorod), Smolensko (Smolensk), Ustiusna (Ustyuzhna), Jeraslaw (Yaroslavl), Moskow (Moscow), Nisna (Nizhny Novgorod), Wologda (Vologda), Muron (Murom), Kaigorod (?), Solikamskoy (Solikamsk), Uffa (Ufa), Weskotaria (?), Wyburg (Vyborg), Seraka (Belomorsk), Korelskoe (?), Kargopol, Archangel (Arkhangelsk), Kewrol (?), Ustjug (Veliky Ustyug), Totma, Jarensk (Yarensk), Pomodia (?), Beresorva (?), Kieliw (?), Kandalar (Kandalaksha), Kola, Vansia (?), Kusmin (?), Petzora or Pustozerskoy (Pustozyorsk abandoned in the 1960s), and Obdora (Salekhard) ; Georgia: Kutatis (Kutaisi) and Teflis (Tbilisi) ; Armenia: Erivan (Yerevan) ; Switzerland: Basil (Basel) and Bern ; Czech Republic: Prague and Olmutz (Olomouc) ; Germany: Ratisbon (Regensburg), Munich, Passau, Embden (Emden), Munster (Münster), Frankfort, Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin, and Dresden ; Austria: Lintz (Linz) and Vienna ; Slovakia: Presburg (Bratislava) and Cassova (Košice) ; Hungary: Buda (Budapest) ; Romania: Hermanst (Sibiu), Temeswar (Timișoara), Buckhorest (Bucharest), and Yassi (Iași) ; Serbia: Belgrade ; Moldova: Bender ; Ukraine: Saray (Bakhchysarai), Koffa (Feodosia), Kaminick (Kamianets-Podilskyi), Braklaw (Bratslav), Akerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi), Ochakow (Ochakiv), Perekop, Sech (Zaporizhia), Kudac (Dnipropetrovsk), Bakmut (?), Leopol (Lviv), Kiow (Kiev), Pultarva (Poltava), Chernigow (Chernihiv), and Glucorv (?) ; Ireland: Cork and Dublin ; England: York, Bristol, and London ; Belgium: Brussels ; Netherlands: Amsterdam ; Poland: Breslaw (Wrocław), Cracow (Kraków), Geona (?), Dantzik (Gdańsk), Warsaw, and Varzovia (?) ; Lithuania: Vilna (Vilnius) ; Belarus: Minsk, Grodno, and Tropez (?) ; Khazakstan: Jalokigorod (?) ; Northern Ireland: Londonderry (Derry) ; Scotland: Edinburg (Edinburgh) and Aberdeen ; Norway: Bergen, Waldros (?), Dronthem (Trondheim), Salten (District in Norway), Waranger, (Varangerbotn), and Wardhuse (Vardøhus Fortre) ; Denmark: Copenhagen ; Sweden: Gottenburg (Gothenburg), Lunden (Lund), Stockholm, Sundswald (Sundsvall), Uma (Umeå), and Pithea (Piteå) ; Latvia: Riga ; Estonia: Revel (Tallinn) ; Iceland: Scalholt (Skálholt) ; Finland: Abo (Turku), Torno (Tornio), and Ulaborg (Oulu).
Cartographer: John Gibson was an important British cartographer of the late 18th century. He produced thousands of maps and was noted as a skilled engraver and sculptor. Gibson's most important work is the pocket sized 1758 Atlas Minimus.