Partie du Zanguebar ou Sont les Costes d´Ajan et d´Abex…./ Les Zanguebar Tire de Sanut

Title

Partie du Zanguebar ou Sont les Costes d´Ajan et d´Abex…./ Les Zanguebar Tire de Sanut

Description

Map shows on two inset maps total Somalia with partly Ethiopia and the island of Socotra/ Also showing the coast of Tansania with the island of Sansibar.

ca. 1650

Artist

Sanson (1600-1667)

Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667) was a French cartographer, termed by some the creator of French geography, in which he's been called the father of French cartography. Active from 1627, Sanson issued his first map of importance, the ""Postes de France"", which was published by Melchior Tavernier in 1632. After publishing several general atlases himself he became the associate of Pierre Mariette, a publisher of prints. In 1647 Sanson accused the Jesuit Philippe Labbe of plagiarizing him in his Pharus Galliae Antiquae; in 1648 he lost his eldest son Nicolas, killed during the Fronde. Among the friends of his later years was the great Condé. He died in Paris on 7 July 1667. Two younger sons, Adrien (d. 1708) and Guillaume (d. 1703), succeeded him as geographers to the king. In 1692 Hubert Jaillot collected Sanson's maps in an Atlas nouveau. See also the 18th century editions of some of Sanson's works on Delamarche under the titles of Atlas de géographie ancienne and Atlas britannique; and the Catalogue des cartes et livres de géographie de Sanson (1702).

Historical Description

The ancestors of the Somali migrated around 500 BC. BC to 100 AD from the southern Ethiopian highlands and mixed - especially in the trading cities on the coast, such as Zeila, Hobyo and Mogadishu - with Arab and Persian immigrants, who also introduced Islam from the 7th century. Muslim sultanates and city-states emerged. In the 16th century, the cities on the north coast came under Turkish and Egyptian rule, those on the southern Benadir coast came under the sovereignty of Oman in the 17th century and Zanzibar in the 19th century. At the end of the 19th century, the area inhabited by Somali experienced its subdivision that is still effective today. The north of what is now Somalia was colonized by Great Britain as British Somaliland, the south and east as Italian Somaliland by Italy. On July 1, 1960, the two colonies jointly became independent as Somalia. The country's first president was Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, followed in 1967 by Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.