Dimitrie Cantemir

Dimitrie Cantemir (??????? ???????? in Russian, Kantemiro?lu in Turkish), (October 26 1673 - 1723) was a Moldavian Voivode, linguist and scholar.

Descriptio Moldaviae

At the request of the Royal Academy in Berlin, Cantemir wrote in 1714 the first geographical, ethnographical and economic description of Moldavia, Descriptio Moldaviae. As many of his books it circulated first in manuscript and was only later published in Germany (first in 1769 in a geographical magazine and then in 1771 the first edition as a book). Around the same time he prepared a manuscript map of Moldavia, the first real map of this country. It contained a lot of geographical detail as well as administrative information. It was printed in 1737 in the Netherlands and has been used by all cartographers of the time as an inspiration for their own maps of Moldavia.

Related Topics:
Berlin - 1714 - Descriptio Moldaviae - Germany - 1769 - 1771 - 1737 - Netherlands

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