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Europe as a queen map upright

Old map of Europe in the shape of a queen holding scepter and orb, with Portugal as her crown, Spain as her face, France as her below-the-neck area, lower Germany and Denmark as her left arm, Italy as her right arm (with Sicily as orb), and the rest of central and eastern Europe as the dress covering her torso and legs.

Date
16th century
Mapmaker / publisher
Artist: Image: rotated by Skäpperöd
Place
Europe
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
528 × 800 pixels

Public domain

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

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Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

Credit line

"Europe as a queen map upright" (16th century). Artist: Image: rotated by Skäpperöd, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_as_a_queen_map_upright.JPG

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