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First century Roman geographer
Pomponius Mela’s “The World” as
reconstructed by Bertius in 1471 |
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Ptolemy's Armenia, Iberia, Colchis & Albania. Dating from the 2nd century. Printed in 1513. |
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Ptolemy's Armenia, Iberia, Colchis & Albania. 2nd century, printed in 1540 by Munster. |
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Persian geographer Istakhri’s “World map”. Armenia is situated in the middle. Circa 950 AD. |
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Persian geographer Istakhri’s map of South Caucasus dating from around 950 AD. The map shows Armenia with Mount Ararat and lake Van, Albania and Azerbaijan. The latter is situated south of the Arax river. Iran-Bastan museum, Tehran. |
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Arab geographer Idrissi's 12th century map of the Middle East. Armenia features prominently. |
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Details from the Ebstorf “World Map”.
Drawn in 1250, showing Mount Ararat
and Noah’s Ark, located in Armenia. |
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The earliest Armenian language “Map of the World” dating from 13-14th centuries. Matenadaran, Yerevan. |
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French mapmaker Descelier’s Armenia, from his “World map”
printed in 1550 |
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Detail of Armenia from Second Century Alexandrian geographer Ptolemy’s “World Map” printed in 1513. |
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Dutch cartographer de Jode's "Asia Minor & Iran" with Armenia in the middle. Printed in 1570. |
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French cartographer Sanson's map "Armenia, Colchis, Iberia & Albania".Based on Ptolemy. 1658 AD. |
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Priest looking at the world.
From Armenian manuscript of 17th century
Matenadaran, Yerevan.
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The planets, from 17th century Armenian
manuscript kept in Matenadaran, Yerevan. |
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The map of “Armenia and Paradise”
from German historian A. Kircheri’s
book printed in 1675. |
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Part of Chelebi Keomurjian's map of "Armenian churches". Hand drawn in 1691. |
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The first printed Armenian language map of the world. Mkhitarist Order,
San Lazzaro, Venice, 1695 |
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Detail from an 18th century Armenian “Globe”
Made in Mkhitarist Monastery
in San Lazzaro, Venice, Italy. |
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Area of Armenia from German geographer Homann’s map of “Asia” printed in 1737. |
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Armenia shown as Paradise (Eden) by the English mapmaker E. Bowen in 1740. |
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Area of South Caucasus from English geographer Senex’s map, printed in 1742. Names of the regions are underlined. |
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"History of the Saints" by Ph. Buache. Armenia is shown as the Garden of Eden. Printed in 1783 |
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”Map of Turkey and Armenia”, 1787.
Printed in Armenian, in San Lazzaro,
Venice |
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A Russian map of "Asiatic Turkey" with occupied Armenia in the eastern provinces. 1793 |
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Armenian language map of the "Ottoman Empire", with occupied Armenia in the east. 1849. |
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Lunar phases according to 18th century
Armenian geography textbook. |
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Map of “Historic Armenia” by the British geographer Johnston, printed in 1886. |
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Lynch's map of Armenia, including eastern and western parts. 1902. |
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Khanzadian’s map of the proposed east and northern borders of Armenia. Paris Peace conf. 1920. |
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The “Western borders of Armenia with
Turkey” as ratified by the Treaty of Sevres in 1920. The map is signed by President Wilson
of the USA. |
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A tourist’s map of Armenia today |
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Satellite photo of a part of Armenia. |
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