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Justus Perthes: Asien gegen die Mitte des Funften Jahrhunderts. Zeit der Sassaniden und des Hunnen-Reiches.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Justus Perthes  (1749–1816)  wikidata:Q61592
 
Justus Perthes
Alternative names
Johann Georg Justus Perthes
Description cartographer
Date of birth/death 11 September 1749 Edit this at Wikidata 1 May 1816 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany Gotha, Thuringia, Germany
Work period 1880 Edit this at Wikidata
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Sumatra Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q61592
Title
Asien gegen die Mitte des Funften Jahrhunderts. Zeit der Sassaniden und des Hunnen-Reiches.
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English: This fascinating hand colored map depicts Asia at the middle of the 5th century. This period corresponds with the period of the great Sassanid Empire and the Song dynasty of China. The Sassanid were a Zoroastrian Persian dynasty hailing from modern day Iran. All text is in German. Map was originally part of the 1855 edition of Karl von Spruner’s Historical Hand Atlas.
Date 1855
date QS:P571,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 14 in (35.5 cm); width: 17 in (43.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,14U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,17U218593
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Geographicus link: AsienFunften-spruneri-1855
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