Monday, July 30, 2007

Riga, Latvia - four maps

Inhabited by early Baltic tribes; settled by German merchants in 1158; Bishop Albert I of Livonia & Crusaders made it center of Livonian Brothers of the Sword; joined Hanseatic League 1282; later ruled by Sweden, Poland & Russia


1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographei DCCCCXXXI


1581, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates..., map III-43


1697, Adam Perelle's map


1899, Riga plan, Brockhaus-Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

(via HUJI)

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2 comments:

  1. EmanuelJuly 30, 2007 at 7:13 PM

    I find this blog of a VERY high value.

    I am trying to link my Jewish Melanoma and Jewish DNA webpages to it.

    All the best, v'Yishar Koach!

    Emanuel A.Yakobson, Ph.D.
    www.weizmann.ac.il/~csyakob

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  2. EmanuelJuly 30, 2007 at 7:21 PM

    As a personal friend and admirer of the curator of this blog for over than half a century, I am very pleased he (Z.V.)found an interesting global outlet for his encyclopedic knowledge and incisive intelligence!

    emanuel.A.Yakobson, Ph.D.
    www.weizmann.ac.il/~csyakob

    eMail

    Emanuel.Yakobson@gmail.com

    for all interested in ethnic cancers, Jewish DNA etc are invited to eMail to me, especially after visiting my webpages!

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