Cartography in the service of the Venetian State: an early 16th-century map of central and northern Dalmatia by an unknown draftsman

Cartography in the service of the Venetian State: an early 16th-century map of central and northern Dalmatia by an unknown draftsman

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This paper analyses the manuscript map of central and parts of northern Dalmatia by an unknown author in the first decade of the 16th century.It is the oldest preserved detailed depiction of a Croatian region and is currently housed in the State Archives of Venice (Archivio di Stato di Venezia).The analysis of its geographic and toponymic 8x4.25 data and the correlation of this data with archival sources show that its qualitative and quantitative content represents a significant advance in the visualisation of spatial reality.It is therefore a valuable cartographic record essential to historical-geographic research of Croatia and the Adriatic as the arena of centuries of military-political confrontation between the Venetian Republic, the Hungaro-Croatian Kingdom (under the Habsburg Dynasty from 1527) and the tallarn sand Ottoman Empire.