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Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage: Bocage's Map of Messenia in Ancient Greece.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage  (1760–1825)  wikidata:Q910954
 
Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage
Alternative names
Jean-Denis Barbie du Bocage
Description French geographer and cartographer
student of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Date of birth/death 28 April 1760 Edit this at Wikidata 29 December 1825
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q910954
Title
Bocage's Map of Messenia in Ancient Greece.
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English: This lovely little map of Messenia, in the southeast of Ancient Greece, was prepared by M. Barbie de Bocage in 1786 for the “Travels of Anarcharsis”. Follows the earlier D’ Anville map. This peninsula and gulf just south of Arcadia and west of Laconia, was generally dominated by Sparta, its more powerful neighbor to the east.
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 9 in (22.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,9U218593
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Geographicus link: Messemoa-white-1793
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