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Did you know that ...
Carta Marina, which was printed in Venice in 1539, is Sweden's oldest map and one of Swedish cartography's most noteworthy cartographic documents.
Carta Marina was drawn by Olaus Magnus who was sent to Rome in 1524 for diplomatic negotiations but he never returned to Sweden.
A copy of the map was found in Munich in 1886, where it still remains. An additional copy was found in Switzerland in 1962. This copy is now in the map collection at the University of Uppsala in Sweden.
Carta Marina became a model for other maps and, up to 1626, when Anders Bure's map, Orbis arctoi nova et accurata delineatio, was published, was the main source of information for maps of the Nordic countries.
... the Swedish Lantmäteriet has produced a large number of cartographic "treasures" during more than 375 years.
In 1628 Anders Bure was given the task of creating a Swedish land survey organisation, which was to survey and draw maps showing all farms and villages, towns, industries, ports and mines in Sweden, as well as general maps of parishes, hundreds and provinces.
In Lantmäteriet's map archives there are approximately three million maps produced between 1628 and the present day. The older materials mainly comprise hand-drawn, large-scale maps.
The map shown here is part of an old geometric map of Stuveryd and a number of other villages in the parish of Fivlered in the county of Älvsborg. It was drawn in 1707 by the land surveyor Vilhelm Kruse.
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