Gabriel Bodenehr: Atlas Curieux oder Neuer und Compendieuser Atlas in welchem, ausser den General Land Charten von America, Africa, Asia und Europa, und der in letzertem gelegenen Reichen und Ländern, sehr viele Speciale von besondern Provincen und Territorien, Augsburg: Gabriel Bodenehr 1717

Signature: Zh 300-3170 raro III 

Figures: Frontispiece; bifolio with the globes; pl. 30-31 (Euorpa); 396-397 (Azow…)

The map, titled “Assoph, Azow oder Azak…”, features the region across the Dnipro, named Volhynien / Ukraine / Cosackische Lander to the east, whereas Okraina refers to a narrow stretch of land above Little Tartary across the rivers Donets, Oskil and Don, extending from Bilhorod/Belgorod to Voronezh (Voronecz), today part of Russian territory, crossing over to Chuhuiv (Czuhoiow) and Oskil in modern Ukraine and, expanding further to the right along River Don. The representation of this territory appears to be centered on the close juxtaposition of the abovementioned rivers, which explains the latter’s oddly stretched course ‘eastwards’ from Voronezh, as well as various other geographical incongruences. Notwithstanding its slender appearance, the region’s depiction here as a serried territory seems exaggerated and conveys the image of a proper province. It is listed as Okraina among Russian provinces in the coeval geographical dictionaries, such as in La Martiniere’s widely used Grand Dictionnaire Géographique (1726–1739), compiled for Philip V (1663–1746), in which Biallogord (Belgorod) and Czuhojow (Chuhuiv) are listed as major towns. [AT]

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