Geoadria, Vol. 24 No. 2, 2019.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.2885
Cartography in the service of the Venetian State: an early 16th-century map of central and northern Dalmatia by an unknown draftsman
Kristijan Juran
orcid.org/0000-0003-3765-0261
; University of Zadar, Department of History, Zadar, Croatia
Karin-edis Barzman
; Binghamton University, Art History Departrment, The Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton, NY, USA
Josip Faričić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8235-1917
; University of Zadar, Department of Geography, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
This paper analyses the manuscript map of central and parts of northern Dalmatia by an unknown author in the first decade of the 16th century. It is the oldest preserved detailed depiction of a Croatian region and is currently housed in the State Archives of Venice (Archivio di Stato di Venezia). The analysis of its geographic and toponymic data and the correlation of this data with archival sources show that its qualitative and quantitative content represents a significant advance in the visualisation of spatial reality. It is therefore a valuable cartographic record essential to historical-geographic research of Croatia and the Adriatic as the arena of centuries of military-political confrontation between the Venetian Republic, the Hungaro-Croatian Kingdom (under the Habsburg Dynasty from 1527) and the Ottoman Empire.
Keywords
map; Dalmatia; Croatia; Venetian Republic; 16th century
Hrčak ID:
233727
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Publication date:
31.12.2019.
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