Nova ac verissima Maris Caspii……

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Article ID EUO2756

Title

Nova ac verissima Maris Caspii……

Description

Map shows the Caspian sea with its bordering countries

Year

ca. 1750

Artist

Ottens (1700-1750)

Joachim Ottens (1663 – 1719). Family of Publishers in Amsterdam and his sons Josua and Renier. Joachim Ottens .Joachim Ottens was the founder of the firm and worked before for Frederick de Wit . Joachim died only a few years later, his sons Renier and Joshua took over the firm and presided over its most prolific period.

Historical Description

Since the Caspian Sea is not a sea in the legal sense, it is not subject to the 1994 Convention on the Law of the Sea. The oldest cultural evidence can be found on inscriptions on Assyrian pottery and call it a "Southern Sea". the first popular name refers to the tribe of the Caspians who lived on the southwestern bank of the Caspian Caucasus, in today's Azerbaijan, the second refers to the bank near Hyrkania, a landscape on today's Iranian and southern Turkmen coast. The changing history of settlement led to numerous other names such as B. the Tatar name "Ag Deniz", White Sea.

Place of Publication Amsterdam
Dimensions (cm)48,5 x 60
ConditionVery good
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueCopper print

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