Wednesday 21 February 2007

1650 Blaeu map


This part of a map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania published in about 1650 and drawn by Blaeu.
Unusually north is to the right -->. So Vilna is on the far left and Dinaburg (Dvinsk/Daugavpils) on the far right.
Salakas (Solok) and Rokiskis (Rakisski) are swapped around. And Kamajai looks to have travelled east.
Click on the map to see it at a good size.

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