MAPS OF ROMAN DACIA. VII. ADRIEN-HUBERT BRUÉ (1786-1832) AND ‘CARTE DE LA DACIE ANCIENNE DE LA PANNONIE DE L’ILLYRIE ET MOESIE’ (1875)
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https://doi.org/10.14795/jaha.12.4.2025.1449Keywords:
Dacia, maps, topography, historical cartography, historical atlasesAbstract
We continue our series of studies on the maps of Roman Dacia with this short note about a map depicting the former province of Dacia, entitled ‘Carte de la Dacie ancienne de la Pannonie de l’Illyrie et Moesie’ (1875). This map was part of an atlas called ‘Atlas universel de géographie physique, politique, ancienne et moderne, contenant les cartes générales et particulières de toutes les parties du monde, mis au courant des Progrès de la Science, pour servir a l’intelligence de l’histoire, de la géographie et des voyages, dressé par Adrien-Hubert Brué (1786-1832), géographe, nouvelle édition revue par E. Levasseur, membre de l’Institut, professeur au Collége de France, comprenant 66 cartes et 85 cartouches tenant lieu d’autant de cartes’. The atlas was published by the Institut Géographique de Paris in 1875. The author is the cartographer Adrien-Hubert Brué (1786-1832), and this new edition of the atlas was reviewed by Pierre Émile Levasseur (1828-1911), a French historian and professor of geography and history in the Collége de France.
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