Reise-Carte durch das Königreich Böhmen Herzogthum Schlesien Marggrafthum Maehren und Lausitz

Title

Reise-Carte durch das Königreich Böhmen Herzogthum Schlesien Marggrafthum Maehren und Lausitz

Description

Map shows Bohemia, Silesia, Maehren, Lausitz and the pricipality Teschen. Decorative and detailed map with a title cartouche and Index. It shows the cities Olmütz, Hradisch, Breslau, Żagań (dt. Sagan), Swidnica (dt. Schweidnitz) etc.

ca. 1700

Artist

Schreiber (1676-1750)

Johann George Schreiber (1676 - 1750) Leipzig. He was a german carthographer, mapmaker, printer and publisher. He was the first german carthographer who issued a map of Saxonia.

Historical Description

Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic. In a broader meaning, Bohemia sometimes refers to the entire Czech territory, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, especially in a historical context, such as the Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by Bohemian kings. Bohemia was a duchy of Great Moravia, later an independent principality, a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire, and subsequently a part of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Austrian Empire. After World War I and the establishment of an independent Czechoslovak state, Bohemia became a part of Czechoslovakia. Between 1938 and 1945, border regions with sizeable German-speaking minorities of all three Czech lands were joined to Nazi Germany as the Sudetenland.