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1) NETHERLANDS: PHOTOS AND MAPS
Here are some nice pictures of Amsterdam and Dutch paintings and landscapes that you will be able to download in high-resolution. We have also added two A4 printable maps of the Netherlands adapted for school tests. The first map is labelled vith the Dutch provinces and the main towns and the second one is mute.

2) EURATLAS PERIODIS BASIC
We are pleased to announce that Euratlas Periodis Basic replaces the previous Periodical Historical Atlas Basic. Amongst several improvements, we have to mention:
- a new drawing of all the Ottoman sanjaks and hereditary, mainly Kurdish, lordships, of the Spanish provinces, the French gouvernements and of the early British states,
- maps in vector format so that enlargement is possible without quality loss,
- Adobe Reader (PDF) document readable under any operating system: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux etc.
Now you can test this new version and purchase it at the promotional price of
24.90 euros, valid until October 1st 2009. Thereafter the normal price will be
29.90 euros. Site licenses are available at attractive price, for instance 200 euros for 29 work stations.
Existing customers of the previous Basic version are entitled to a discount of 14 euros on the promotional price until September 1st. If you are a customer and you haven't yet received a coupon code, write us, before July 14th, and mention the date of your purchase.

The Euratlas Periodis Expert version, with display, editing and print options as well as mountains and more inhabited places will be ready in September or October.

3) HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL MAPS OF THE MODERN AGE
Hisatlas is still progressing. The author, Joaquín de Salas Vara de Rey, has revised some maps and added new ones of New England, Morocco, China and Spain. Most of the new maps are in PDF (Adobe Reader) format so that much more details are displayed.
Hisatlas 0.97 includes now 266 detailed historical maps and this new version costs 24.90 euros. If you are an existing customer, send us, until July 14th, your name and purchase date and we will give you a free download link for this new version.

4) WORLD RAIL ATLAS 8
An A4 landscape soft-back publication. The 1st section gives, country by country, a historical summary of rail development, with section opening / closing and electrification dates, metro and tramway details too. The next section of 72 colour maps shows in detail all railway systems that have ever existed in the region, followed by a full index of stations. Volume 8 - The Middle East and Caucasus - came first and the gaps will be filled as the maps / history is completed. The series will be the definitive guide to the world’s railway networks with valuable contributions from most railway companies around the world.

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1) PORTUGAL: PHOTOS AND MAPS
Henri the Navigator, Ferdinand Magellan, boats, bridges and sea, there is now a Portugal chapter in Europe Photo. Moreover, as a member Euratlas-Info, you can download a printable map of Portugal, blank or labeled, in color or grey shades, in English or French. This map is adapted for school tests and shows the districts of the country, the main rivers and mountain ranges.

2) GEOREFERENCED HISTORICAL VECTOR DATA
Now the Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data licences are ready for 21 centuries. Let us recall these historical databases include the shapes, long form names, short form names, political status and dependencies - i. e. owner and holder entities - of all the known European countries for each century from year 1 until year 2000. Moreover, all the known first and second level administrative divisions are provided and the databases include also nearly 3000 places and towns, with their importance degree and local name of the time, to help location. These data allow you to modify and organize spatially your own map and are particularly adapted for:
  - historical, archeological or cultural researches,
  - creation of exhibition or museum wall maps,
  - textbooks or national historical maps,
  - educational or strategy games.
In the Euratlas Shop, you will find for each century a .zip archive containing a sample file, and a link towards the bibliography and, on the same page, a small summary map.

3) PROGRESS OF THE NEW PERIODICAL ATLAS OF EUROPE
The new versions of the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe are still in progress. The new Expert version will be a dedicated program with excellent zoom and powerful search options and several display choices. It will be possible to create customized maps by choosing which information to display or not: countries, rivers, mountains, provinces, cities, short names, long names, political dependencies etc.

The new Basic version will be a simple .pdf document with high resolution maps, 10 000 pixels wide. Here you can download a slightly reduced map from this version: the map of the Balkans and Western Anatolia in year 1300, just before the Almogavar campaign, with the Turkish beyliks and the Latin states in Greece.

Of course, all existing customers of an Expert or Basic version  will benefit of an upgrade price for the new equivalent version.

4) PHYSICAL MAP OF EUROPE 2009
A new version of the Physical map of Europe is available now for Corel Draw and Illustrator users. In addition to the 200 m., 500 m. 1000 m., 2000 m. and 3500 m. contour lines and to the rivers and to 2600 populated places, you will find in it the shapes of the European countries with their borders of 2009.
The vector files are provided in 24 layers but Corel Draw users need only 18 layers as the towns names and the long and short form names of the countries are available as ObjectData. Moreover, the first level administrative divisions (regions, states or communities) are given for the United Kingdom, for France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy and Greece.

5) ANTIQUE MAPS
The map of the Carolingian Empire in 814 from the Victor Duruy Atlas historique de la France, the map of Italy about the 5th century B.C. from the Drioux & Leroy Atlas universel de Géographie and a World map of 1808 from the Atlas historique et géographique by Las Cases alias Lesage can be downloaded in high resolution by all Euratlas-Info subscribers.

6) EURATLAS-INFO & EURATLAS SHOP
Documents and products mentioned above are in the new Euratlas-Info and Euratlas Shop pages. These pages have been revised to become more ergonomic and are now easier to navigate.
Euratlas-Info has 7 sections:
  - Europe Maps: blank or labeled printable maps of Europe,
  - Countries of Europe: blank or labeled printable maps of European countries,
  - World Maps: blank or labeled printable world maps,
  - History Maps: vector or raster Euratlas history maps,
  - Antique Maps: digitized old maps and prints,
  - Pictures of Europe: high resolution photos from the Europe Photo branch,
  - Back Issues: all previous issues of the present newsletter from nr 11.
As Euratlas-Info members, you can freely download all the maps and pictures listed above.

In addition, the Euratlas Shop has 4 sections:
  - Historical Atlases: Mitteleuropatlas, Germany 1789, Hisatlas etc.
  - Antique Maps: various digitized antique maps or atlases
  - Vector Maps: Georeferenced Vector Data and Map of Europe 2009
  - References: links towards third parties references books

We are still progressing in the process of creation and translation of the new versions, Expert and Basic, of the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe and we hope that the new basic version will be available in June. Feel free to ask us any further question.

We wish you a nice spring

Christos Nüssli

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1) BRITISH ISLANDS 1688
Here is a map of the British Isles made in 1688 by Pierre Duval d'Abbeville (1618-1683), nephew of Nicolas Sanson and himself Geographer of the King. This document is special because it shows the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of the Heptarchy (about 600-800 A.D.) simultaneously with the main 18th. century towns.

2) ENGLAND
England has been added in the Europe Photos section. You can see some pictures of Bath, Stonehenge, Avebury, Salisbury, Chester (the Roman Deva), Oxford and the English countryside. We have added, of course, the statues of Boudica, Cromwell, Lord Nelson and two foreigners having had strong ties with this country: Richard Lionheart andMahatma Gandhi.

3) GEOREFERENCED HISTORICAL VECTOR DATA
We are still improving the Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data and the licences for 5 centuries are already available in the Euratlas Shop. Thus, you will find here the licences for the years 2000, 1900,1800, 1700, 1600 and 1500. The 15 remaining centuries will be added progressively and the same data will be available in French too.
There are 2 kinds of licences: simple or non-commercial and extended or commercial. Please read carefully which rights are granted by each kind of licence.
Each Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data set consists of 6 layers provided in Latin-1 and in UTF-8: autonomous peoples, cities, dioceses, sovereign_countries, holder_countries and provinces. There are also physical layers, without names: rivers, fuzzy_borders, and seas. The mountains are common for all the centuries: 200, 500, 1000, 2000 and 3500 meters contour lines. Several Layer Descriptors (SLD) are included for the rivers, countries, dioceses, provinces, seas and mountains. If you purchase a licence in 2008 you will be entitled to receive free updates until Novemer 30, 2009.

All holders of the previous Historical Vector Maps of Europe licence are entitled to a discount of 50 euros per purchased map for each Georeferenced  Data simple licence of the same century. Please, write us and we will tell you exactly the discount you are entitled to and send you the purchase coupon code.

4) GERMANY 1789 INTERACTIVE
Mr Thomas Höckmann has improved the English version of his atlas of Germany 1789. Now, in Germany 1789 Interactive, you will find 40 maps of Germany at the end of the 18th century with direct links to the relevant information about the territories in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, English version.

5) ITALY 2009
Here is, for Euratlas-Info members only, an A4 color printable map of Italy with regions and provinces, valid from 2009 on. This map is provided in English, Italian and French and a blank version adapted for school tests is also available.

In 2009, a new vector version of the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe will be issued with more details and extended zooming possibilities and all existing customers will benefit of an upgrade price. Check the upcoming issue of Euratlas-Info.

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1) THE NILE LANDS 1862
Heinrich Kiepert (1818 - 1899) was a German geographer and cartographer who issued a wide number of historical atlases and maps, for instance Atlas von Hellas 1844, Atlas Antiquus 1861, Formae Orbis Antiqui 1893, Neuer Handatlas über alle Theile der Erde 1860. We have here an excerpt from a second edition of this Handatlas: a 1862 map of the "Nilländer", that is of the Nile lands, in which you will see the known parts of Egypt, Sudan, Darfur and Ethiopia, mentioned as Amhara.

2) WALES
The Brythonic or Welsh kingdoms were not definitively conquered by England before the end of the 13th century and it was King Edward I (1239 - 1309) who established a chain of fortresses to control the country: Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech, Rhuddlan, Denbigh or Dolwyddelan. Here are these places, together with Snowdonia, Beddgelert orAnglesey in the Europe Photos section. These are images of a land of castles, mist and legends.

3) GEOREFERENCED HISTORICAL VECTOR DATA
We have improved the Euratlas Historical Maps in particular by adding the Ottoman sanjaks in all the centuries and by increasing the detail level of the French départements or gouvernements and of the British counties. Moreover we have converted our historical maps into a geographic information system (GIS) and we need now to finish the transfer of all data: provinces, regions, countries and cities. Presumably in November, we will be in position to sell the first Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data. The large amount of information present in the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe will be offered in a very structured way and each user will be able to analyze, to display or to organize the data spatially. Euratlas-Info members can already download a sample of our georeferenced vector data in shapefile(.shp) format.
Subsequently, probably in February 2009, we will issue a HGIS (Historical Geographic Information System) Atlas of Europe. We are preparing a formal chronology and we will try to add it in this new version.
Of course, all existing customers of the present Euratlas Historical Vector Maps of Europe and of the current Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe will benefit of an upgrade price for the new versions, respectively, of the Georeferenced Historical Vector Data and of the HGIS Atlas of Europe.

4) MITTELEUROPATLAS
Dr Andreas Birken, a cartographer and a historian: author of severalacademic publications, has realized a historical atlas of the Central Europeancountries from 1250 until 1871. Here, you will find maps with a rare level of accuracy covering a wide area of Europe, from Marseille to Lviv (Lvov) and from Copenhagen to Rome. These maps are offering a complete and highly detailed survey of all the kingdoms, principalities, duchies, counties, lordships and provinces that existed in what is now Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, East France, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, North Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. This atlas exists only in German but this not a problem for users who are mainly interested by European history. Try the demo version.

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1) THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN 1845
While there are many records of the Western countries, historical maps of the Middle East are very scarce. Thus, it is really difficult to recreate the historical geography of Turkey, Lebanon, the Kurdish regions, Armenia or Iraq, all the more as the populations were speaking various languages. The replacement of the Ottoman script with a Latin alphabet in 1928, the specific Armenian and Georgian alphabets, the various transcriptions of Arabic words and the numerous transliterations of some names (e.g. from Kurdish to Arabic, then to Ottoman Turkish and finally to modern Turkish) makes it quite impossible to locate some places.Here is a map of the Ottoman Empire realized by Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin and Adolphe Noël des Vergers and published in Paris by Charles Picquet in 1845. Names and borders are legible. Therefore it will be possible to spot the ancient places with their modern equivalents, to search for the small 19th century Kurdish or Armenian autonomies or to examine the border between the Pashalik of Baghdad and Iran.

2) GREECE
In the Europe Photos section, you'll find some new pictures of Greece: the legendary Bridge of Arta (allegedly built with human blood), the modern Rio-Antirio Bridge (built with EU funding), the Souli Mountains, the Vlach town of Aminciu or Metsovo, the fortress of Patras, the Meteora, the Fine Gate of Nicopolis and many other views of Athens and Greek landmarks.

3) EUROPE AND EUROPEAN UNION 2008
Here is, for Euratlas-Info subscribers only, an A4 printable map of whole Europe and the European Union. The map shows the names of all the European countries with their capital-cities and is available in color or grey level, blank or with labels.

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1) HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE ANCIENT ORIENT
Now the historical maps of Egypt, Asia Minor and the Fertile Crescent, covering 30 centuries in the Antiquity are available online. There is one map for each century and the collection allows an easy overview of the ancient countries from 3300 BC until 300 BC according to the “official“ chronology.This historical atlas was realized in German by Dr Andreas Birken and you will find a full version in the Euratlas Shop. In this full version you can read a discussion of the problems of chronology of the ancient Orient; alternatives are shown.

2) GREEK ISLANDS
In the Europe Photos section, you'll find some new pictures of the Archipelago, the Greek Islands in the Aegean. See, for instance, the windmills and pelecan of Mykonos, the landscapes of Paros and Kythnos or the statue of the navarch Andreas Miaoulis in Ermoupolis, Syros. A small map of the Cyclades will make easier the locating of the places.

3) THE STATES OF GERMANY 2008
Here is a simple A4 printable map of the German Bundesländer. Available in English or German, in addition with a blank version, this map is adapted for school tests. Note that the Regierungsbezirke or governement regions are also shown in the 5 states who implement this administrative division.


In June, we will present an online version of an exceptional map: the Ottoman Empire in 1845 by Noël & Vivien
Best regards

Euratlas - C. Nüssli, May 2008

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1) EUROPEAN RAILWAYS ABOUT 1875
This is a French detailed map of the European rail network published approximately in 1875. The borders of the European countries are shown as they were before the Congress of Berlin (June-July 1878) but some later railways are marked by simple black lines, like the Simplon tunnel (1906). This map was made by the geographers A.T. Chartier and Th. Gobert and engraved by E. Kollmann.

2) CZECHIA
The Czech Republic is a country of tales and legends. Everywhere, one can see Art Nouveau sculptures and decorated houses. In the Europe Photos section, you will discover some pictures of Czechia, most of them being related to history.
Remember that Borivoj the Ploughman was the first Duke of Bohemia and that the country was evangelized by Cyril and Methodius (9th cent.), the missionaries coming from Thessaloniki.

3) THE DEPARTMENTS OF FRANCE 2008
Gers, Gironde, Hérault, Ille-et-Vilaine, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Isère, Jura, Landes, Loir-et-Cher, Loire, Haute-Loire....Download now a beautiful map of all metropolitan France's departments and administrative regions with their chef-lieux and INSEE* code.
You can also download this document as a blank map to be used in school tests.
*Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques

3) HISATLAS 0.95
Several history maps have been added in Hisatlas, Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age. This atlas includes now 256 highly detailed political maps covering quite all the countries of the world. Most of the legends are in English but some are in simple Spanish too. Existing customers are kindly requested to send us an e-mail after April 2, 2008 and we will send them a download link for this new version Hisatlas 0.95.

In May, we will present an online version of Dr Andreas Birken's New Atlas of Ancient Orient.

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1) EXTENDED PEUTINGERIAN MAP
An intermediate zoom level has been added to the Peutingerian Map. Now, you can click everywehere on a one of the full sections of the Table and you will reach an enlarged image giving an overall view of the selected area. Another click will bring you to the highest zoom level. Of course, for each zoom level a grey level transcription with the main place names is provided. So, you will enjoy an easy exploration of this exceptional document.


2) MONTENEGRO
The smallest country with the Double-Headed Eagle, a wonderfull country in Southern Europe: 685 000 inhabitants and a little town as historic capital. Have a look at our collection of Montenegro pictures.


3) EUROPE 1950
Discover the lost countries of the 20th century. Here is an easy political political map of Europe in 1950. You will see again the Two Germanies and the SSSR, but also Yugoslavia, the Emirate of Cyrenaica and several smaller entities. This map doesn't show the administrative divisions of the states and is not provided in the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe but you can download the full image and print it in good quality.


4) EURATLAS SITE
The Euratlas website is constantly expanding and a restructuration of the online framework will soon be necessary. For the time being, we have prepared a simple site map in order to make easier your navigation in the several sections of the whole website.

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1) A WORLD ATLAS
An online world atlas that allows you to highlight each of the 194 sovereign countries in the world with their local and English name in short and long form, with their capital, flag, population, land area and with the average life expectancy of the inhabitants. Moreover a red bar shows the population size in an analogical way.An additional page displays the special status territories like Gaza, Transnistria, or the Somalian states.

2) Printable World Maps
As an Euratlas-Info member you can download printable blank or labeled world maps adapted for A4 sheets: a b/w blank map, a b/w labeled map with the countries, a color blank map and a color labeled map with all the countries. Small fonts were used for the names so that all the 194 independant states of the world can be shown on one single sheet.

3) Croatia, Slavonia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro
Here is an old map of the Dalmatian lands: Croatia, Slavonia, the Military Frontier, Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Montenegro. Considering the boundaries shown on it and the activity of the author, it appears that this map was drawn about 1865. Friedrich Handtke (1815 -1879 ) was the director of the cartographic section in the Carl Flemming (1806 -1878 ) publishing house in Glogow or Glogau. Handtke drew himself 168 maps out of 260 published under his authority.

4) Albania
In the Europe Photos pages, you will find a new section with 41 pictures of Albania, especially from the Gjirokaster and Butrint or Buthrorum areas which are both listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.You will also see photos of the colourful Tirana, the Berat citadel, Shkodër, Saranda and several Albanian landscapes.

5) Euratlas Shop, 10% discount
Find an interesting choice of digital maps and atlases in the euratlas shop and, as an euratlas-info member, you can have a special discount of 10% on the following products:- Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe Expert- Atlas historique périodique de l'Europe Expert- Periodischer Geschichtsatlas von Europauntil December 31, 2007. You need simply to past the following code into the required field, at the bottom of the order page: -------Ask us for the code in you cannot read it

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1) THE PEUTINGERIAN TABLE
It is probably the oldest road map in the world. These 11 parchment scrolls were copied in 1265 from one or several Roman originals and they show the earth as known in Antiquity.With the authorization of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library), Euratlas is proud to present an on-line real-size version of the Peutingerian Map. You will have a direct access to each of the 11 scrolls and you will be able to enlarge every region simply by clicking on it to see the ancient localities and their modern names. Moreover, for each map area, you will get the possibility to display a black and white version with the transcription of the main towns.Have a look at this antique map and enjoy!

2) Map of the Gallia Narbonensis Roads about 100 AD
As an Euratlas-Info member you can download a large map (1553 x 1783 x 72 px) of Southeastern Gaul and Nortwestern Italy in year 100 with the main Roman roads and the place names ancient and modern. It will be particularly interesting to compare it with the corresponding areas of the Tabula Peutingeriana.To get Euratlas-Info maps and images you must click on the download link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.

3) Europe Photos
Several new pictures have been added in the France North and France South sections, especially photos of buildings and statues.Large size photos are available in the Euratlas-Info Members's area and you are welcome to download them freely.

4) HISATLAS 0.9
Hisatlas, Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age, has been enhanced with 8 new maps: 4 maps of the Caucasus area and new maps of Ghana and Togo. Several previous maps have been updated also. Let us recall that Hisatlas is an essential tool for he who wants to know the dates of the boundaries changes across the world.

Start your own timeline at OurStory.com

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1) The Lesage Historical Atlas
Count Emmanuel de Las Cases (1766 - 1842) emigrated in 1790 from France to England for political reasons. There, under the pseudonym of A. Le Sage, he published in 1802 a monumental Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique. This work was a great success in Europe a went reprinted several times till ca. 1845. Las Cases, companion of Napoleon in Saint Helena, is famous for the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène but his Atlas marks also a stage in the study of history because he his the first to explain historical events through charts and maps with arrows and text cartouches. You will find here all the 33 sheets of the 1808 edition as .jpg images and each page is zoomable. The text is in French but the maps are easily understandable. You may meet difficulties to read some maps anf it will be necessary to open 2 browsers side by side, but keep in mind that the original book is an Elephant Folio, that is 54 cm x 35 cm.

2) The Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
Now, you can view the web-version of the Euratlas Historical Atlas either in high resolution or, like before, in low resolution. The high resolution pages offer better quality maps and display also several major cities for each century with their local contemporaneous name. Morover small flags and arrows are giving access to the French and German pages or to the next and previous century. By clicking on the thumbnails maps, you can change the current view: either quarter of maps or full map.If you feel that some denominations of countries or towns are looking strange, like "Igilgilis" or "Empire of Romania", I suggest that you search in English, German or French Wikipedia for those names and you will find several references. You can also ask me directly for further explanations after July 25, 2007.When the high resolution maps were launched on-line, euratlas.com received so much visits (more than 90 000 on June 25) that the website was blocked for several hours but safety precautions have been adopted now to avoid further shortages.

3) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
Visit again and let know the Euratlas-Info area. This month you will find a nice map of Ancient Greece from the French Atlas Universel 1877 by Drioux & Leroy. This document is offered in high resolution and you will be able to print it with a good quality.To get Euratlas-Info maps and images you must click on the download link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.

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1) The countries in the Physical Atlas of Europe
Now, you can highlight a country by clicking on its name and display its position on the whole map of Europe. For each country, you will get the following information: English and local name in short and long form, capital city, area, population and average life expectancy. Links towards the corresponding Wikipedia entry and the country's official website are also provided. You will see also an interesting page about the special status territories like Transnistria, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh etc. See the explanation for more details.
http://www.euratlas.com/Atlasphys/Countries.htm

2) Alpine and Danube Lands about 1715
We are presenting an old map of Central Europe, extending from the Upper Danube basin with Dalmatia to the Northern Adriatic Sea with the Eastern part of the Alps. No place, no date, one sheet wears the mention "Elias Boeck a. H. sculps. a. V." Elias Boeck or Baeck, alias Heldenmuth (= a. H.), was an engraver and publisher born in 1679, active in Rome, Venice, Laibach or Ljubljana and Augsburg or Augusta Vindelicorum (= a.V.) between 1705 and 1747. That is why this map which shows the main towns, rivers and mountains ranges of modern Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Eastern Switzerland can be dated from about 1715. Note that this area was the "front line" between the Holy German Empire and the Ottoman Empire and a special care has been brought to the description of the fortified towns.
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/danube_alps/index.html

3) Europe Photos
The Europe Photos section has been increased again and displays now more than 1000 pictures. You will find new pages with nice images of Croatia and Slovenia.Moreover large size photos have been added in the Euratlas-Info protected area and you are welcome to download them freely.

4) Atlas der islamischen Welt
We are happy to sell, in the Euratlas Shop, a new atlas by Dr Andreas Birken on a red hot subject: 119 pages, 96 highly detailed maps and several charts on geography, peoples, history, politics, and economy of the Islamic World from 622 to 2007 A.D.The atlas is available only in German, but this should not be a great difficulty for those who are used to reading maps.Cartographic documents about Islam are scarce or inaccurate. So this atlas will fill in a gap.

5) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
Visit again and let know the Euratlas-Info area. You will find there two large engravings: the1808 frontispice of the Atlas historique by Emmanuel de Las Cases showing the Napoleonic Fasti and a XVIIIth century map of Switzerland. These documents are offered in high resolution and you can print them with a good quality.To get Euratlas-Info maps you must click on the download link and enter your login and password in the dialog box. Ask us if you have lost these data.

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) Thurn and Taxis Post Roads Map in Germany 1786
The Torre e Tasso family, from Val Sassina, owned several courier services in Lombardy from about 1290. From 1490 on, Francesco de Tassis, called Franz von Taxis, was granted the right to carry government and private mail throughout the Empire and in Spain. Thus, the Thurn & Taxis family operated for 350 years, postal services in the major part of western Europe, from Spain to Hungary. This map, by Homann's Heirs, presents the 1786 Thurn & Taxis post-roads in the German Empire and in the neighbouring countries. Be aware that some roads, especially in the ecclesiastical principalities are missing.Johann Baptist Homann (1664 - 1724) was imperial geographer from 1715 in Nurnberg and his work was continued by his son Christoph under the name Hommänischen Erben.
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/deutschland_1786/index.html

2) Road Map of England and Wales, ca. 1779
This map, from the Modern Universal British Traveler, one of the first travel guides in English, written by Charles Burlington and David Lewellyn Rees in 1779 is a very useful document. You will discover the main XVIIIth century travel roads in the southern part of the British Islands with the distances in miles. However these roads must not be compared to the continental post-roads because in Britain, the postal service was a royal monopoly.
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/england_wales/index.html

3) Europe Photos
The Europe Photos section has been increased again and displays now more than 950 pictures of European towns and countries. You will find new photos especially in the Rome, Paris, Southern Germany, Austria and Swiss Plateau sections. Next month Croatia and Slovenia will be added.
http://www.euratlas.com/Atlas/rome/

4) Geschichtsatlas von Europa
Inform your German-speaking friends that the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe has been translated in German by Mr Thomas Höckmann. The maps are now available online or as an Experten Version by direct download. Note that the layout of the online German version will be soon adopted for the English version too.Moreover, we are preparing an enhanced software vector version with a chronology and provinces, countries and cities databases of the Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe but it will not be ready before 2008.

5) Euratlas-Info Member's Area
A protected area for Euratlas-Info subscribers only has been created. You will find in it the vector maps of Roman Western Europe and Dalmatia and several high resolution .jpg blank maps. Check this section regularly because new maps and high resolution pictures of Europe will be added.You can access to the protected pages by typin

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1) The Santini Map of Italy 1783
In the Cartography section, you will find an 18th century map of Italy with the main post-roads and the boundaries of the Italian states. This document was made by Father or Père Francois Santini, a French publisher active in Venice. All Santini maps were based on the best cartographers of the 18th century like de Vaugondy and Janvier. This print seems to be a copy of the Robert Janvier map of Italy from his Atlas Universel printed in 1776-1784.

2) Spain and Portugal
Charles-François Delamarche, 1740-1817, was one of the most important French geographers. In 1786, he bought the Didier Robert de Vaugondy map collection. He published several maps and atlases and his son Felix continued his work. The Delamarche Atlas de Géographie was reprinted several times in the 19th century and was even adopted by the Royal Council of Public Instruction.Here is a map of Spain and Portugal as they were in the 19th century, from one of the Delamarche Atlas editions.

3) Europe Photos
The Europe Photos section has been enhanced and displays now 67 pictures of Istanbul. Moreover several images of landscapes, landmarks and artworks have been added in the Egypt, Russia, Greek Islands and Ukraine pages, so that you can view and download more than 800 photos.

4) Neuer Atlas zur Geschichte des Alten Orients A historical atlas has been added in the Euratlas Shop: the New Atlas of the Ancient Orient by Dr Andreas Birken. Dr Birken is an historian and a cartographer who has contributed to the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients or T.A.V.O. a research project of the Tübingen University, and to the Grosser Historischer Weltatlas, a major reference historical atlas.The Neuer Atlas zur Geschichte des Alten Orients is available only in German but provides 30 magnificent historical maps of the Middle East, one per century, from 33rd to 4th century B.C.

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1) The Mons Porphyrites in the Eastern Desert
The deep purple porphyry of Egypt was known as the Imperial Stone and was used in the building of many structures throughout Europe. The emperors of Constantinople born during the reign of their parents were called porphyrogeniti, because the imperial delivery room was fully panelled with porphyry slabs. The original porphyry quarries have been deserted for more than 1500 years but some ruins can still be seen in the Eastern Desert: the Roman castellum, the temple of Serapis, antique wells and unfinished porphyry blocks.
http://www.euratlas.com/mons_porphyrites/index.html


2) A plan for the cartography of the Roman roads
We are working on a general map of the 1st century Roman roads. Of course, some minor details like scale, information to be shown etc., have to be defined but you can already see a sketch of this future Euratlas map.

http://www.euratlas.com/viae_romanae/index.html



3) The Itinerary Map of France 1783
The highly detailed Carte Itinéraire de France, based on Cassini's works and engraved in 1783 is now available in the Euratlas Shop. The 35 sheets of the original map are offered in .jpg format and presented also in smaller sections on html pages to make searching and navigation easy and fast. Moreover a short chronology and a clickable index of nearly 950 place names have been added so that the user has a direct access to the location he is searching.
You can download now a demo version of this fast and useful map. The full version of France 1783 is available at the price of 12 € + V.A.T. http://www.euratlas.com/shop/a_fr1783.htm

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Here are some new features in the Euratlas website

1) Towns Pages in the Physical Atlas of Europe Now you can highlight a city from a list of 96 European towns by clicking on its name and you will also have a direct access to the Wikipedia entry and to the official website of the chosen city. What's more, the modern population and the date of the first written historical account of each city are given. See the main towns page: http://www.euratlas.com/Atlasphys/Towns.htm

2) The Regency of Algiers 1837 The Cartographies section presents a rare map of the Algerian lands as they were in the years 1835-1837 during the conquest of Algeria by France. This map is surprising because it shows, in pink, the territories occupied by the French troops and, in ochre, the extent of "Arab Algeria". Moreover, there are six cartouches with detail maps of La Tafna, the Surroundings of Algiers, the Landing Zone at Sidi-Ferruch, the City Map of Algiers, the Road from Algiers to Medea and the Surroundings of Constantine. See the main map: http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/algerie_1837/index.html

3) The Kingdom of Poland 1752 Also in the Cartographies section, we are proud to present a beautiful map of the Kingdom of Poland in 1752 by Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy. The Polish State is shown with its traditional boundaries, including large parts of modern Ukraine and Belarus, that is to say as it was before the First Partition of the Kingdom. See the main map: http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/pologne/index.html

4) Europe Photos For those of you who have not yet decided to visit our continent, here is a collection of more than 500 pictures of European and Mediterranean landscapes, landmarks, islands, towns and countries. See Europe Photos: http://www.euratlas.com/europe_photos/

5) Germany 1789 and Deutschland 1789 - Interaktiv The atlases by Thomas Höckmann, Germany 1789 and Deutschland 1789-Interaktiv, have been improved and include now several new maps, especially Austria, Luxemburg, Flanders and Brabant, Alsace and Lorraine. Thus this document offers now a complete and very accurate description of the Holy Roman Empire in 1789. Here is the list of all the maps: http://www.euratlas.com/shop/2germany.htm See the main product page: http://www.euratlas.com/shop/1germany.htm

6) Antique maps available in the Euratlas Shop The Antique Maps section of the Euratlas Shop offers now quite all our antique maps for sale as image files in .jpg format. You will find here Algeria 1837, Switzerland 1836, Austrian Netherlands 1777 etc. and in August, the Itinerary Map of France 1783 will also be available. See the Antique Maps page: http://www.euratlas.com/shop/Shop2.html

Euratlas wishes you a Happy Summer Break C. Nüssli, July 2006

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Here are some new features in the Euratlas website

1) The Post-Roads and Railroads Map of Germany 1852 In the Cartographies section, you will find an outstanding 19th century travel map engraved in Nürnberg. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that the 38 states of the German Confederation are clearly outlined and the main railroads and post roads show the growing European transportation network. The neighboring regions, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Eastern France, Northern Italy, Poland or Austria-Hungary are also shown with their political organization and the main land itineraries and sea routes. In addition, this map offers a list of the main railroad lines and a chart of the German states population in 1852.

2) HISATLAS - Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age If you don't know the fine historical maps created by Joaquín de Salas Vara de Rey, you will discover here a really complete historical atlas covering with great accuracy the world history from 1789 on, to the present. These maps were drawn in .gif format with bright colors and they wear all the information about the new and old states and the administrative changes. The whole world is depicted but a special attention was given to the European countries. Hisatlas offers 225 detailed easily printable maps, organized in 18 different sections: Europe, Latin America, Africa, China etc. Try now the demo version.

3) Deutschland 1789 - Interaktiv Thomas Höckmann who has drawn Germany 1789 is presenting now an enhanced version of his atlas. These 35 German history maps are provided with direct links to the articles of Wikipedia concerning the territories or the noble houses. This atlas, available in German only, is ideal for teaching, for genealogy and for all people interested in history. Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia, is growing at an incredible speed in quantity and quality and, as the links will probably not change in the future, the user will have direct access from the maps to a constantly expanding knowledge base. Deutschland 1789-Interaktiv gives you the advantage of going directly to the relevant page of a chosen territory without any searching.