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Eastern part of the Roman World under Prince Louis Philip of Aurelian

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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Orbis Romani Pars Orientalis Auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Ludovici Philippi Aurelianorum Ducis Publici juris Facta…   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville  (1697–1782)  wikidata:Q733907 s:en:Author:Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville q:it:Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
 
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Description French geographer and cartographer
Date of birth/death 11 July 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 28 January 1782 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q733907
Title
Orbis Romani Pars Orientalis Auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Ludovici Philippi Aurelianorum Ducis Publici juris Facta…
Description
English: A large and dramatic J. B. B. D'Anville map of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Covers from Greece (Graecia) and Dacia east as far as Babylonia, Arabia and Armenia. Extends south as far as Thebes in Upper Egypt. Includes the eastern part of the Mediterranean (Mare Internum) and the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus). Details mountains rivers, cities, roadways, and lakes with political divisions highlighted in outline color. Decorative title cartouche bearing the Roman Eagle appears in the lower left quadrant. Includes eight distance scales, bottom right, referencing various measurement systems common in antiquity. Text in Latin and English. Drawn by J. B. B. D'Anville in 1764 and published in 1794 by Laurie and Whittle, London.
Date dated 1764, published 1794
Dimensions height: 26.5 in (67.3 cm); width: 21.5 in (54.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,26.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,21.5U218593
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Geographicus link: RomanEmpireEast-anville-1794
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D'Anville, J. B. B., Complete Body of Ancient Geography, Laurie and Whittle, London, 1795.

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