1822 Carte Generale de L’Empire Romain sous Constantin.

By: Adrien-Hubert Brue Date: 1822 (Published) Paris Dimensions: 15 x 20 inches (38  x 50.8 cm) This splendid copper-engraved map by Brue depicts the Roman Empire as it was under Emperor Constantine the Great in the first quarter of the fourth century A.D. It was this ‘Eastern Roman Empire’ which came to be known as Byzantium which would continue to rule Constantine’s kingdom or parts of it until 1453, when Fatih Mehmet captured Constantinople. The empire, though decimated by the end, was one of the greatest and longest ruling of all empires in the West. This map shows the extent of the great empire and suggests the problems inherent in controlling such vast territories, which stretched from the British Isles all the way east to the Caspian Sea, north to Germany and what was then Sarmatia and south well into northern Africa. The map’s features are extremely detailed and carefully drawn, including texturing in mountains and bodies of water, labels for political divisions, settlements, po