MAP OF BOSNIA, HERCEGOVINA, MONTENEGRO AND THE AUSTRIAN KINGDOM OF DALMATIA

Inventory number 544

Original title: Special Karte von Bosnien, der Herzegowina, dem Fürstenthum Montenegro und dem Österreichischen Kronlande Dalmatien

Publishing year: 1885

Place of publishing and publisher: Glogau

Format: 80 x 65 cm

Technique: Partially coloured lithograph

This large overview map shows the synthesis of the 1878 Congress of Berlin, with the territorial division of the Balkan Peninsula, under which Bosnia belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy. Dalmatia is presented within the framework of a separate Austrian crown land. Both former Ottoman corridors, the first near Neum and the second near Sutorina, were retained in the new division which is marked on the map with colour. Traffic communications are particularly emphasized. The title graphic scale cartouche is located in the bottom left corner, and next to it is a segment of a map of Mitrovica and Vučitrn in Kosovo. In the north, Dalmatia borders the Military Frontier, and the toponyms were likely taken from templates in the Italian language, as the language was used to mark a part of the site, especially on the islands. Other similar maps from the same era, such as the Flemming maps, record military engineering topographic data and methods. The map was published in collaboration with Carl Flemming as the publisher.

HANDTKE, FRIEDRICH

FRIEDRICH HANDTKE (1815-1879), was a 19th century German cartographer of Pförten origin. He accurately combined topographic information, which was updated using military-engineering sources and by consulting the Italian and other high-quality templates, in his maps of military areas, such as the eastern Adriatic coast. He was also interested in the overseas countries, so he also tried to make a map of North America. For most of his works created in the second half of the 19th century, like the case is with the maps of Dalmatia, he worked with Carl Flemming as a publisher. In 1876 he also prepared for him the maps of the European Turkey. His maps were most often made in the form of lithography, and he published them in Glogau in present-day Poland.