Print from steel engraving titled „La Turquie en Europe“.

Author/compiler – Buffier.

Published in Paris, France in M. DCC. LXV. – 1765.

Notes: Septentrion/Orient/Midy/Occident, pag. 265.

From „Geographie Universelle, exposee dans les differentes methodes qui peuvent abreger l‘etude, & faciliter l‘ufage de cette Science. Avec le fecours des Vers artificiels. Par le P. Buffier, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Neuvieme edition. Du Fonds de P. F. Giffart. A Paris.Chez H. C. De Hansy, libraire, rue S. Jacques; pres les Mathurins, a Sainte Therefe. M. DCC. LXV. – 1765.

Claude Buffier (25 May 1661 – 17 May 1737), French philosopher, historian and teacher, was born in Poland of French parents, who returned to France and settled at Rouen soon after his birth. He was educated at the Jesuit college there, and he was received into the Order at the age of nineteen. A dispute with the archbishop compelled him to leave Rouen. After a short stay in Rome, he returned to Paris to the college of the Jesuits, where he spent the rest of his life. He seems to have been a good teacher and lucid expositor.

Turkey officially the Republic of Turkey is a contiguous transcontinental parliamentary republic largely located in Western Asia with the smaller portion of Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea is to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia. Turkey's location at the crossroads of Europe and Asia makes it a country of significant geostrategic importance.

Approx. image size 17, 9 x 14, 1/19, 6 x 16, 9 cm.

Condition: good.