Description: A map of Europe in 1792 during the French Revolution and the beginning of the Modern Era. This map is color-coded to distinguish between various countries throughout the continent, including Great Britain, France, United Netherlands, Denmark-Norway, Poland, Hungary, portions of Sweden and Russia, Portugal, Spain, Corsica, Sardinia, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, States of the Church, Tuscany, Lucca, Genoa, Modena, Parma, Venice, Milan, Savoy, Switzerland, and the Comet Venaissin (Avignon). The countries of the Holy Roman Empire are shown, including East Friesland, Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Hanover, Brandenburg, Austrian Netherlands, Hesse-Cassel, Saxony, Silesia, Baden, Würtemburg, Bavaria, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Styra, Carthinia, Tyrol, and the state of Montbéliard. The Ottoman Empire is also shown, with the European territories of Moldavia, Wallachia, Servia, Bosnia, Candia (Crete), and Morea (Greece).
Place Names: A Complete Map of Europe, Austria, Bosnia, Cyprus, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Servia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Venic
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries
Keywords: Europe at the Beginning of the Modern Era, political, local jurisdictions,
country borders,
major political subdivisions, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries, Unknown, 1792
Source: Ward, Prothero, and Leathes, The Cambridge Modern History Atlas (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1912)
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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