Cursul Dunării şi bazinul pontic în hărţi germane din sec. XVI - XVII
The German Maps about the Danube and Black Sea Area (XVI th - XVII th century)

Summary/Abstract: Since the beginning of 16th century the Habsburgs tried to legitimize a new domination to the Mouth of Danube. They used a large ideological and political argumentation on this purpose, and the first authors were Johannes Cuspinianus, Johannes Cario and Ogier Giselin de Busbecq. Step by step the idea of Dacia became a political concept, not only a historical and geographical entity. A large number of such writings developed the idea that the Habsburgs were the legitimate heirs of the ancient Roman Empire and, consquently so they must to own all the countries that Roman Empire possessed, centuries ago, including Dacia, which corresponded in 16th century with the territories of Walachia, Moldavia and Transylvania. The political and strategically interest was obvious in the maps that were made for the Habsburgs, because they tried to find out more about these countries. Stephan Lazarus, Wolfgang Lazius, Johannes Honterus, Sebastian Munster or Abraham Ortelius drew such maps. All these maps belong to geographical Atlases. Alegoric representation of Europe; Abraham Ortelius' map (cca. 1570); Philip Cluverius' map (1629); Cornelius Dankerts and Justus Dankerts map (mid. XVII)

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