It includes the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and North Africa. Inside the map, the kingdoms into which the peninsula is divided are outlined, and the most important mountain ranges and rivers are shown, as well as some of the most famous towns and cities.

Collection: Texts

Project: 0. What is Europe? The European Spaces in the history of Europe.

Chronology: XVII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: http://www2.ign.es/MapasAbsysJPG/0004_41-K-4.jpg

Resource type: Cartography

Format: Colour map, mounted on canvas: 37.5 x 51.5 cm on a page of 44 x 54 cm. Scale 1: 3.000.000

Source: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), Fondos Cartográficos, 0004 (Signatura IGNC 41-K-4)

Language: Latin

Date: 10/20/2020

Owner: Rubén Castro Redondo (Modernalia)

Identifier: 41-K-4

Copyright: © Instituto Geográfico Nacional

Abstract: Map of the Iberian Peninsula, made by Iudocus Hondius (author) and Petrus Kaerius (engraver), based on Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae Mediationes de Fabrica mundi et fabricati figura (1595), where this map, which Mercator had not drawn, was added, in any case following his style in the aforementioned work. Published in Amsterdam, c. 1606.

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