Historic Map : Johnson Map of Prussia, Germany, 1866, Vintage Wall Art antique map The 1606 map titled Septentrionalium

The 1606 map titled Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio represents a significant evolution in Arctic cartography

Drawn to illustrated the Primitive Settlements and Subsequent Progress of the Posterity of Noah compiled from Bochart

Later the term was popularized in a John Donne poem

This fascinating 1862 map by Justus Perthes and Stieler depicts Greece

Divided into various regions with color-coding according to the colonial power active in

Historic Map : Johnson Map of Prussia, Germany, 1866, Vintage Wall Art antique map The 1606 map titled SeptentrionaliumThis is Johnson and Ward's 1866 map of Prussia, Germany. Prussia attained its greatest importance in the 18th and 19th centuries when it dominated northern Germany politically, economically, and in population. During the 19th century, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck pursued a policy of uniting the German principalities into a Lesser Germany which would exclude the Austrian Empire. Bismarck's North German Confederation formed in 1867, one year after this