Žemėlapiai

A bullet that probably brought killed Walter Flex, one of Germany's finest writers.

Adventurers love them, explorers devise them, and everyone uses them – maps.

The invention of printing igave rise to the cross-cultural flow of texts in Europe.

It was Marco Polo’s book of his travels that introduced Europeans to China and Central Asia.

In this blog the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin highlight a remarkable piece from its World War One collection: a satirical map of the nations of Europe as seen in 1914.

ibn Batutah is a strong contestant for the greatest traveller in history.

Žemėlapiai, gaubliai, jūrlapiai ir kita

Explore maps of the Balkans in Europeana

For centuries, cartographers and others have defined Europe, its lands and borders through maps.