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SCHLIEBEN, WILHELM ERNST AUGUST VON: MAP OF BOSNIA / RUMILI

SCHLIEBEN, WILHELM ERNST AUGUST VON: MAP OF BOSNIA / RUMILI

Inventory number 524
Original title: Türkei, Ejalet Rumili und Ejalet Bosna
Publishing year: 1825
Place of publishing and publisher: Leipzig
Format: 19,5 x 26 cm
Technique: Partially coloured lithograph

Since the 14th century, Rumeli was the Ottoman acquis on the Balkan peninsula, and despite the establishment of Buda Eyalet, and later the Bosnia Eyalet in 1580, the 19th century name was synonymous with Ottoman territories in Europe. In this case, Eyalet Rumili covers territories to Serbia and Albania, divided into eight sanjaks (another name for the territorial unit eyalet before 1860), while Eyalet Bosnia, separated by a prominent red line, includes Travnik (Bosna Serai), Banja Luka, Srebrenica, Zvornik, Novi Pazar and Hersek sanjak. The last one is mentioned in the legend, while the Montenegrin Trebin is marked with the same number (6.). This partly corresponds to the reorganization of the vilayet with the governor led by 1865, with the exception that the Travnik, Bihać and Hercegovina sanjak were not especially separated. The content was not drawn in the area north of Sava and in Dalmatia, but it was recorded that these were imperial territories of Austria. The title legend with a detailed list of sanjaks is in the lower left corner. Apart from hydrographic and major roads, geographic content is completely omitted, and the borders constitute the dominant map content. The graphic scale expressed in geographic and Turkish miles is at the bottom edge of the map. Geographic coordinates are marked and the label of the sheet Türkei is above the upper edge of the map.

SCHLIEBEN, WILHELM ERNST AUGUST VON
SCHLIEBEN, WILHELM ERNST AUGUST VON (1781-1839), a cartographer from Dresden, who worked as a chief district land surveyor in Leipzig. He was the first Director of the Statistical Association of Saxony, and made his career as a military officer and professor of military science. He carried out land surveys in Thüringen and collected data of the Kingdom of Saxony for statistical purposes. He published works in the field of land surveying, war history, mathematics and geography. As far as Croatian cartography is concerned, his most significant works were published in the Atlas von Europa from1829 and the Mittheilungen des statistischen Vereins für das Königreich Sachsen, which was published from 1831 to 1839.
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