Basel

Maps on our site:

• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, 402-403
  
  
• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, 405
  
  
• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographei..., ccccxciiii
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-32
  
  
• 1575, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map II-40

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• Maps from The Ryhiner Map Collection, Municipal and University Library of Bern (German):
  
  Basel, 16th century
  
  Basel, 1642
  
  Basel town scape, 1642
  
  Basel, 1784
  
  Basel, 18th century
  
  Basel town scape, 18th century
  
  Basel town scape, 1761
  
  
  
  
• From the website of Biblioteca Nationale Marciana:
  
  
  Basel Valegio Francesco, 1625 ?
  
  Basel Fer, Nicolas de, 1696
  
  

Originally was a Celtic settlement of the Rauraci tribe; site of a Roman fortification; bishop of Augusta Rarica moved his see here in 5th cen.; university established here by pope Pius II in 1460; became center of humanism & Reformation in 16th cen.

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