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Karl Spruner von Merz: Orbis Terrarvm regni Persici tempore   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Karl Spruner von Merz  (1803–1892)  wikidata:Q6186030 s:it:Autore:Karl Spruner von Merz
 
Alternative names
Karl von Spruner / Carl von Spruner
Description German cartographer and historian
Date of birth/death 15 November 1803 Edit this at Wikidata 24 August 1892 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Stuttgart Munich
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artist QS:P170,Q6186030
Title
Orbis Terrarvm regni Persici tempore
Description
English: This is Karl von Spruner’s 1865 map of The World at the Time of the Persian Empire with eleven insets. The insets (starting clockwise from the upper-left quadrant) feature “Persepolis”, “Arx Susiana”, “the Kingdoms of Lydia, Babylon, and Media”, “Babylon”, “The Acropolis of Babylon”, “The Nile Delta”, “Samos”, “The Burial Grounds at Sardis”, “Persepolis –Pasargadae”, “Africa: The West Coast” and “Sush”. Countries and territories outlined in color. The whole is rendered in finely engraved detail exhibiting throughout the fine craftsmanship of the Perthes firm.
Date 1865 (undated)
Dimensions height: 13 in (33 cm); width: 16 in (40.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,16U218593
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Geographicus link: OrbisTerrarumPersici-spruner-1865
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Spruner, Karl von, Spruner-Menke Atlas Antiquus,, (Gotha: Justus Perthes), 1865.

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