Print from copper engraving titled „Royaumes D‘ Espagne et de Portugal“.

Author/compiler – M. Barthelemy.

Engraved unknown.

Notes: After restauration.

From „Methode abregee et facile pour apprenre la geographie“ Dediee a M. Crozat, par M. Barthelemy. A Leon, Chez Amable Leroy, Imprimeur – Libraire. 1809.

Spain officially the Kingdom of Spain is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. Modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago. It came under Roman rule around 200 BCE, after which the region was named Hispania. In the Middle Ages, the area was conquered by Germanic tribes and later by the Moors. Spain emerged as a unified country in the 15th century, following the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs and the completion of the centuries-long reconquest, or Reconquista, of the peninsula from the Moors in 1492.In the early modern period, Spain became one of history's first global colonial empires, leaving a vast cultural and linguistic legacy that includes over 500 million Spanish speakers, making Spanish the world's second most spoken first language.

Portugal officially the Portuguese Republic is a sovereign nation-state in Europe. It is located on the Iberian Peninsula, and it is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, being bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. Aside from continental Portugal, the Portuguese Republic holds sovereignty over the Atlantic archipelagos of Azores and Madeira, which are autonomous regions of Portugal. The country is named after its second largest city, Porto, whose name derives from Latin "Portus" and the Celtic place-name "Cale".

Approx. image size 17 x 14, 7/20, 7 x 20, 9 cm. Condition: medium.