Print of steel engraving titled „La Germanie et pays adjacents Sous les reis Merovingiens 511 - 741.

Author A. Houze.

Engraved by unknown.

From the „Atlas Universel Historique et Geographique by A. Houze, Paris. 1850.

Germania was the Roman and Greek term for the geographical region inhabited mainly by the Germanic people. It was bordered to west by the Rhine river, to the south by the Danube river, to the north by the Baltic Sea, and to the east by the Vistula river. According to Friedrich Engels in his book The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State first published in 1884 Germania covered an area of 500,000 km2 or 190,000 sq mi with a population of 5,000,000 in the 1st century BC. The areas west of the Rhine were mainly Celtic (specifically Gaulish) and had become part of the Roman Empire.

Approx. image size 28 x 20, 5/34 x 24, 8 cm.

Condition: good.