Historic Map : Spruner Antique Map of Byzantine Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, 1854, Vintage Wall Art Size:20in x 24in At the top of the

At the top of the map stars dot the firmament behind the arc of the Zodiac

By leaving out the Dutch lands

Lower right quadrant features much of what is today North Carolina

A rare and unusual Japanese map of Tokyo made in the 19th year of the Emperor Meiji's reign or 1886

been mapped only tentatively and then only their coastlines

Historic Map : Spruner Antique Map of Byzantine Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, 1854, Vintage Wall Art Size:20in x 24in At the top of theThis is Karl von Spruner's 1854 historical map of Asia Minor, Iran, Iraq, and the Caucuses during the hegemony of the Byzantine empire. The map covers from Georgia south to Syria and includes the modern day countries of Turkey, Syria, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and parts of Iran and Iraq. Asia Minor was considered the heartland of the Byzantine empire during its most powerful years. It was also here that the empire received its greatest blow when