Details

Subject(s)

• Greece—Maps [Browse]
• Macedonia (Greece)—Maps [Browse]
• Macedonia (Republic)—Maps [Browse]
• Thrace, Eastern (Turkey)—Maps [Browse]
• Thrace, Western (Greece)—Maps [Browse]
• Romania—Maps [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Historical maps—Greece [Browse]
• Historical maps—Romania [Browse]
• Historical maps—Turkey [Browse]

Related work(s)

Butler, Samuel, 1774-1839. Atlas of antient geography. [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown by hachures.
• In upper right-hand corner: IX.
• Shows Macedonia, an ancient kingdom which later became a Roman province, now a region in the central Balkan Peninsula including the Macedonia region of Greece, the middle Vardar Valley in the Macedonian Republic of the former Yugoslavia, and southwest Bulgaria; Moesia, an ancient region and Roman province situated in the areas of modern Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania along the south bank of the Danube River; Thrace, now Eastern Thrace in Turkey and Western Thrace in Greece; and Dacia, an ancient country of central Europe, now modern Romania.
• Probably issued in: An atlas of antient geography / by Samuel Butler. Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, 1831. Reissued with same imprint in 1832, and by Lea & Blanchard in 1843.

Source acquisition

Gift of Dimitri Gondicas to the Program in Hellenic Studies for the Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

Macedonia, Moesia, Thracia et Dacia

OCLC

894363836

International Standard Recording Code

HM 2015-13

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