Old Map of Bohemia by Blaeu, 1645
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Towns and Places Shown on the Map
The map centres on Prague and records numerous towns, settlements, rivers, forests and mountain districts across historic Bohemia. The territory broadly corresponds to the western and central regions of the modern Czech Republic, although its boundaries and place names reflect the political geography of the seventeenth century.
Bohemia in the Seventeenth Century
Bohemia was one of the principal lands of the Bohemian Crown and formed an important part of the Habsburg territories in Central Europe. Prague had long been a major political, religious and cultural centre, while the wider kingdom contained prosperous towns, mining districts, forests and agricultural regions.
The map appeared during the final years of the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict that had begun in Bohemia with the Defenestration of Prague in 1618. The defeat of the Bohemian forces at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 brought the kingdom more firmly under Habsburg control. By 1645, warfare was still affecting much of Central Europe, making this map a record of Bohemia during one of the most turbulent periods in its history.
Cartographer and publication note
Willem Blaeu established one of the most celebrated mapmaking and publishing houses of the Dutch Golden Age. Following his death in 1638, the business was continued by his sons, principally Joan Blaeu. This map appeared in the 1645 Atlas Novus, which was issued under the names of Willem and Joan Blaeu.
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