Lepanto

Title

Lepanto

Description

Map shows the city of Lepanto at the golf of Lepanto.

ca. 1683

Artist

Wagner (1640-1701 ca.)

The Nuremberg private scholar and journalist Johann Christoph Wagner published several descriptions of the country in the 1680s, in particular of the Balkan countries and several Asian empires, in the publishing house of the Augsburg book printer Jacob Koppmayer. Johann Christoph Wagner was a Nuremberg calendar writer and entertainment writer, who in the 17th century AD. helped shape the image of the Western world about Muslims. Because he couldn't find a job in Nuremberg, he became a calendar writer. At that time, calendars were used to convey the constellation and were small astronomical and, above all, astrological reading books with additional information on world events. Under the title "Teutscher und Ausländischer Helden: As well as Turkish defeats, war and victory calendars" his calendars were published by Felsecker Verlag in Nuremberg. Wagner seems to have emigrated to Augsburg around 1680. When the Ottomans were defeated in 1683, he published an extensive volume with the description of Hungary and Turkey under the title: "Delineatio Provinciarum Pannoniae Et Imperii Turcici In Oriente: The whole state of the Turkish court, including two country maps - und Abriß der Fürnemsten Cities ", printed in Augsburg by Jacob Koppmayer in 1684. Later he published country descriptions of the Orient.

Historical Description

Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilisation, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, Western drama and the Olympic Games. From the eighth century B.C., the Greeks were organised into various independent city-states, known as poleis (singular polis), which spanned the entire Mediterranean region and the Black Sea. Philip of Macedon united most of the Greek mainland in the fourth century BC, with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering much of the ancient world, from the eastern Mediterranean to India. Greece was annexed by Rome in the second century B.C., becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire, which adopted the Greek language and culture. The Greek Orthodox Church, which emerged in the first century A.D., helped shape modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox World. After falling under Ottoman dominion in the mid-15th century, Greece emerged as a modern nation state in 1830 following a war of independence.