6. Between the Orient and „New Russia“

Laurence Echard: Carte Geografiche Del Dizionario Geografico Portatile

Laurence Echard: Carte Geografiche Del Dizionario Geografico Portatile, Napoli: Presso Domenico Terres 1771 Signature: Ah 100-3710/3 raro IV Figures: Frontispiece; pl. I.5; II.4; II.5 A hybrid publication from 1771 combines an Italian translation of a French edition of the 1715 Classical Geographical Dictionary printed in London with a series of maps derived from several authors.

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6. Between the Orient and „New Russia“. Late 18th-Century Ukraine as a Site of Contest

By the end of the 18th century, Ukraine came under a fundamentally new political system that persisted until the October revolution. The 1768–1773 Russo-Turkish war forced the Ottomans to retreat from Crimea, leading to its 1783 annexation by Catherine II. The partitions of Poland-Lithuania, partly triggered by Polish noblemen’s support for the Sultan, brought a

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