Historic Map : Delisle de Sales Map of Southern Greece, 1782, Vintage Wall Art

This is a beautiful 1782 map of southern Greece by Jean- Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales. The map covers the entire Peloponnese peninsula including the islands of Ithaca, Cephalonia, Zaknythos or Zante and Cythera. It also includes the southern part of Euboea. Numerous towns and cities as well as regional units are identified throughout. The map also notes several rivers, islands and other topographic features, with mountains rendered in profile.

When this map was drawn this region was dominated by the waning Ottoman hegemony. The Ottomans would nevertheless continue to exert a powerful influence on this region until the early 19th century.

This map was issued as part of Delisle de Sales' Histoire des Hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Moderne. This volume is exceedingly rare as most of Sales' work was burnt under the censorship of heresy.