Geography Reference
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Figure 4.
Ivan IV Terrible and Anthony Jenkinson (from the genuine map)
Important dates for the mentioned period were following events as attachment of Khanate of
Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan Khanate (1556), as well as subordination by tsar the Nogai Orda
and Khanate of Sibir. At the time the Russian neighborhood played an important role - Poland
and Lithuania, for instance Ivan's suffering the defeat in the war with Livonia (1557/1558 -
1570). To have an access to the Baltic coast was the main reason of the battle at that time.
This short introduction to historical epoch of our map of Russia let us take a look at the map
of this point of view. Historical content is reflected in numerous texts on the map, as well as,
for instance in silhouettes of numerous khans which are placed in the right-hand part of the
map in its south-eastern fragment of the territory. In the left-hand part of the map there is
only one figure of khan -
“Ismail Sophi”
near the Ardevil
town
(“Ardabil”
in the map). This
city is situated close to the other important city, Tabris (
“Tenbres”
) and in the western
direction there is yet one more important city Kazvin
(“Ca
by”
in the map).
Opposite to the left-hand side of the map, in the right-hand side, are five figures of khans.
There are (going from the south):
“Kvrcot chan”
- to the north of
“montes paraponise”
, “Alie
chan”- in
“Kirges”
region,
“Blag chan”
- in
“Boghar”
region
, “Azim chan”-
in
“Turkmen”
region
and
“Aphis chan”- in “Taskent”
region, to the north of
“Ta
kent”
city.
As far as the content on regions included is concerned the best idea is to quote full list
mentioned in the bottom of the title cartouche, i.e. left hand corner of the map. This goes as
follows:
“Johannes Ba
ilius Dei gratia, Magnus Imperator totius Ruβiae, Magnus Dux Vladimiriae,
Mo
coviae, Nouogardiae, Imperator A
trachaniae atque Liuoniae, magnus Dux Pla
rouiae,
