Arras

Maps on our site:

• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-13

Find more maps:

• Maps from Kyoto University Library, (Japanese):
  
  Plan de la ville d'Arras
  
  Arras town scape
  
  
  
  
• From the website of Biblioteca Nationale Marciana:
  
  
  Arras Coronelli, Vincenzo
  
  Arras, Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg 1616?
  
  Arras Valegio Francesco, 1625 ?
  
  Arras Fer, Nicolas de, 1696
  
  

Chief town of Atrebates; damaged by Attila 451 & by Northmen 800; ruled by Flanders; medieval center for tapestry manufacture; ceded to Maximilian of Austria 1493; held by Spanish Hapsburgs 1640; taken by Louis XIII of France 1640.

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