Prague

Maps on our site:

• 1493, Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum CCXXX
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-29
  
  
• 1743, Homann's Heirs, Kriegs - Expeditions - Karte in Böhmen

Find more maps:

• Prague town scape 1650-1700
  at the website of Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
  
  
• Prague 1858
  From A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany,
  Eighth Edition. London: John Murray. 1858.
  The University of Texas at Austin, Map Collection

Located at intersection of ancient trade routes on Vltava river; settlements from Paleolithic, Neolithic & Celtic periods were in the area; later became nucleus for Bohemian state; was brilliant medieval center; declined in 17th cen., but recovered.

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