Map

Italy / produced by the Cartographic Division, National Geographic Society ; John F. Shupe, chief cartographer ; design, Sally S. Summerall. [map]

National Geographic Society (U.S.). Cartographic Division. (Author). Shupe, John F. (Added Author). Suominen-Summerall, Sally. (Added Author). Nicolaus Germanus, (Added Author).

Record details

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 80 x 55 cm.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The Society, c1995

Content descriptions

General Note:

Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Depths shown by gradient tints and soundings.

"Supplement to the National Geographic, February 1995."

Issued: Washington, D.C., February 1995.

Also issued folded to 15 x 21 cm.

Includes note, glossary, 5 city insets, insets of San Marino and Vatican City, and inset location map.

Text and col. ill. on verso.

Maps of "Historical Italy" on verso: Italia [facsim. of map from Nicolaus Germanus's atlas "Geographia," Ulm, Germany, 1486] -- Etruscan civilization -- The Roman Empire -- The Roman Empire circa A.D. 400 -- Papal States, 814 (Patrimony of St. Peter) -- The Plague 1347-48 -- Height of the Renaissance 1492 -- The Counter-Reformation 1559 -- The Enlightenment 1748 -- Napoleon in Italy 1812 -- Unification.