Price: £350.00

• Date: 1598
• Condition: AAA
• Colour: BW
• Size (cm): approx. sheet size 42 cm x 56 cm

Győr is the most important city of northwest Hungary lying at one of the more important roads of Central Europe halfway between Budapest and Vienna.
The first large settlement dates back to the 5th century BCE, its inhabitants were Celts. Roman merchants moved to Arrabona during the 1st century BCE, and around 10 CE the Roman army occupied the northern part of Western Hungary which they called Pannonia. Although the Roman Empire abandoned the area in the 4th century due to constant attacks by the tribes living east of the area, the town remained inhabited. Around 500 the territory was settled by Slavs, in 547 by the Lombards, in 568-c.800 by the Avars, then under Frankish and Slavic influence, then between 880 and 894 it was part of Great Moravia, and then shortly under East Frankish influence. The Magyars occupied the town around 900 and fortified the abandoned Roman fortress.

"...Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, stands as one of the greatest monuments of late 16th and early 17th Century European cartography. Published in Cologne, Germany in a series of six volumes between 1572 and 1617/8, and, when finally completed, comprising nearly 550 City views and plans, the Civitates is also one of the most valuable sources for the study of Renaissance urban cartography. " - Roderick M Barron.