Nordrhein-Westfalen

Cologne / Köln

Maps on our site:

• 1493, Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum, XCI
  
  
• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographei..., DCXII - DCXIII
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-38
  
  
• 1800, J. Stockdale
  
  
• 1912, George Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide

Located on W bank of Rhein; was Roman fortification; captured by Franks in 456; seat of powerful archbishop, town became independent in 1288; member of Hanseatic League; declined in Thirty Years' War of 17th cen.; Prussian from 1815; destroyed in WW II.

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