Hungary on the maps
10. Stenghri, Emanuel: Descriptio ac delineatio totius Hungariae et Transylvaniae. 1664.
Stenghri’s parchment map still shows the bridge at Eszék (Osijek, Croatia) destroyed by troops under Miklós Zrínyi on 2 February 1664, which helps us to date it more closely. The map is adorned with the coat-of-arms of Hungary and of the Báthori family, despite the fact that by this time the latter had disappeared from the political life of Transylvania.
The first maps to show the ‘seven towers’ coat-of-arms of Transylvania (German name: Siebenbürgen) came from Holland in the 1660s.
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