Bosnia Herzegovina

Valleys, fortified towns and mountain routes recur through several centuries of mapping and war reporting from Bosnia and He...

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Valleys, fortified towns and mountain routes recur through several centuries of mapping and war reporting from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The maps begin with Mercator, Hondius and later regional cartographers and continue through Ottoman provincial geography to twentieth-century military studies, including retrospective campaign maps of operations around the Neretva, Kozara, Drvar, Mostar and Tuzla, while plans of Sarajevo and surveys of enclosed upland basins work at a local scale. Historical spellings and borders cross present lines. The prints record nineteenth-century uprisings, Austrian bridge-building, troop movements, meetings with inhabitants and views of castles and settlements.

Valleys, fortified towns and mountain routes recur through several centuries of mapping and war reporting from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The maps begin with Mercator, Hondius and later regional cartographers and continue through Ottoman provincial geography to twentieth-century military studies, including retrospective campaign maps of operations around the Neretva, Kozara, Drvar, Mostar and Tuzla, while plans of Sarajevo and surveys of enclosed upland basins work at a local scale. Historical spellings and borders cross present lines. The prints record nineteenth-century uprisings, Austrian bridge-building, troop movements, meetings with inhabitants and views of castles and settlements.

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