File:Europe As A Queen Sebastian Munster 1570.jpg

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English: Map of Europe as a queen. In Sebastian Münster: Cosmographia, Das ist Beschreibung der ganzen Welt. Henricus Petri, Basel 1628, p. 54. See the edition from 1628: https://archive.org/details/muenster_cosmographia_1628/page/54/mode/1up Europe is illustrated as a queen, an illustration that was published in Munster`s Cosmographia since 1588 and originally was created in 1534 by Johannes Bucius. The crown and the head are formed by Spain, England and Scotland are isles at the sceptre, the upper body build Gallia and Germania, the arms are Denmark and Italy with Sicilia as an orb, the lower body is built by the states Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Scythia and others. On the front- side you see the nice coloured view, on the back-side there is a general description in German.
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Source http://bigthink.com/ideas/21192
Author Sebastian Münster
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Europa regina (Map of Europe as a queen). Sebastian Münster: Cosmographia, 1628

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