Veradelineatio ordinis Belliqu Naualis Venetorum cum Turcis apud Dardaneli. Eigentlichee Abriß der Ordnung und Schiffstreits der Venetianer mit den..

Title

Veradelineatio ordinis Belliqu Naualis Venetorum cum Turcis apud Dardaneli. Eigentlichee Abriß der Ordnung und Schiffstreits der Venetianer mit den..

Description

ird's-eye view shows the Battle of the Dardanelles from the year 1646. In the Dardanelles Strait, the Venetian and Ottoman fleets are depicted, with the corresponding index listed below in a banner. The Battle of the Dardanelles was one of the numerous naval battles and clashes fought between the fleets of the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire for dominance in the eastern Mediterranean.

ca. 1647

Artist

Merian (1593-1650)

Matthäus Merian (1593 – 1650) , born in Basel, learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zurich and subsequently worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Paris, before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry. He married his daughter, Maria Magdalena 1617. In 1620 they moved back to Basel, only to return three years later to Frankfurt, where Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry's death in 1623. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He is the father of Maria Sibylla Merian, who later published her the famous and wellknown studies of flowers, insects and butterflies.

Historical Description

The area of today's Turkey has been populated since the Paleolithic. The name of the Turks comes from Central Asia. The immigrants from whom Turkey got its name were the Oghusen and came from the area around the Aral Sea. The Turkish settlement of Anatolia began with the arrival of the Seljuks in the 11th century AD. Around 1299, Osman I, Gazi (1259–1326) founded the Ottoman dynasty named after him, from which the name of the Ottoman Empire (also called the Turkish Empire) ) derives. After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans ruled over large parts of the Middle East, North Africa, the Crimea, the Caucasus and the Balkans. After the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe was brought to a standstill near Vienna and the Ottoman army was defeated there on Kahlenberg in 1683, the empire was pushed back further and further from its European territories to the tip west of the Marmara Sea, between Istanbul and Edirne. The national movements that emerged from the 19th century onwards led to a gradual fragmentation of the empire, the occupation of Turkish North Africa by European powers and finally the defeat in the First World War resulted in its ultimate decline.