Milan

Maps on our site:

• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-42

Find more maps:

• The University of Texas at Austin, Map Collection: Milan in 1913
  Scanned from Baedeker's Northern Italy Handbook For Travellers by Karl Baedeker, Fourteenth Remodelled Edition 1913

One of nation's richest cities; sacked by Attila the Hun 452 & Goths 539; battled for autonomy with nearby cities 11th-12th cen.; controlled by Sforza family 15th cen. & by Spain 1540-1706; won independence from Austria 1848; heavily bombed during WW II.

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