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Rare 19th-century map could fetch up to $685,000 at Seoul Auction
This 1861 copy of the Daedongyeojido, or a woodblock map of the Korean Peninsula by cartographer Kim Jeong-ho, has been ...
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The Map Is Not the Territory: How Satirists Charted Poland When It Wasn't on the Map
In 1795, the last of a series of partitions effectively wiped Poland off the map of Europe. Naturally the country and its citizens didn't vanish altogether, and the so-called 'Polish question' was an ...
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The Nation State
This 19th century map was drawn up with no regard to the boundaries between different ethnic groups, linguistic variations and regional power bases. Somalia stood alone as a unit which was uniform ...