Print of steel engraving titled Tableau de la retraite des dix mille“.

Author Fellx Delamarche.

Engraved by unknown.

From Atlas de la Geographie ancienne du moyen age et moderne“ by Fellx Delamarche. Paris. 1829.

Flix Delamarche was a French geographer and engineer who flourished during the 18th century and early 19th century. His father was the map publisher Charles Francois Delamarche.

Asia Minor, a peninsula also called Anatolia, comprises most of the Asian part of modern Turkey and the Armenian highland. Most people there today speak Turkish. The seas surrounding Asia Minor are the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Because Asia Minor is between Christian Europe and Asia, many different cultures have lived there. Remnants (small parts) of these cultures are there today.Many great historical people, like the Hittites, Lydians Greeks, Persians, Armenians, Romans, Goths, Minoans, Byzantines and Turks, have lived in or occupied Asia Minor. The Roman Empire had a province called Asia, which was in Asia Minor. Later people started to call the entire continent Asia, so the peninsula Asia was called Asia Minor (little Asia).Troy is one of many famous cities that were in Asia Minor long ago.

Approx. image size 42, 3 x 29, 2/46, 2 x 33, 2 cm.Condition: good.

Condition: good.