Namur

Maps on our site:

• 1575, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map II-20

Find more maps:

• Maps from Kyoto University Library, (Japanese):
  
  Plan de la ville et citadelle de Namur
  
  Namur town scape
  
  
• From the website of Biblioteca Nationale Marciana:
  
  
  Namur Coronelli, Vincenzo
  
  Namur, Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg 1616?
  
  Namur Valegio Francesco, 1625 ?
  
  Namur Fer, Nicolas de ,1693
  
  Namur Fer, Nicolas de ,1694
  
  
• Plan de Namur en 1704
  from University of Michigan Library
  
  

Located at confluence of Sambre & Meuse rivers; was pre-Roman settlement; seat of counts of Namur from 908; passed to Burgundy in 1421; its strategic location at routes into France has meant that city was often the scene of conflict in 17th & 19-20th cen.

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