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| Keywords: 1865 Spruner Map of Northwestern Africa, the Magreb, and the Barbary Coast in Antiquity - Geographicus - Maghreb-spruner-1865.jpg This is Karl von Spruner ™s 1865 map of Cyrenaica Africa and Mauretania collectively known as The Maghreb Presently the Maghreb makes up the areas of Morocco Algeria Tunisia Libya Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara Essentially three maps in one this charts includes the Peutinger Table named after Konrad Peutinger who discovered the map in 1508 The Peutinger Map is an astoundingly important discovery that is today ™s only known example of a Roman world map though the original Peutinger was itself a Mediaeval copy of the Roman original The center map is Northern Africa and the island of Sicily At the bottom are maps featuring Caesaria the capital of the Roman province located in Northern Africa and Marmarica 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 throughout the fine craftsmanship of the Perthes firm 1865 undated Size in 16 13 object history credit line accession number Maghreb-spruner-1865 Spruner Karl von <i>Spruner-Menke Atlas Antiquus </i> Gotha Justus Perthes 1865 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Karl Spruner von Merz Old maps of Africa 1865 maps | ||||
