Sankt Gallen

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• 1575, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map II-41

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  Municipal and University Library of Bern (German):
  
  Sankt Gallen, 1642
  
  Sankt Gallen, 18th century
  
  

Named after a Celtic abbey founded by St. Columbarus on the site of the hermitage of the missionary Irish monk, St. Gall; Benedictine abbey was founded here ca. 720; was important center of learning in Middle Ages; was ruled by abbot-princes.

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