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Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
The Regions of Venezuela (Spanish: Regiones de Venezuela) are two groupings of Venezuela's states, capital district, and federal dependencies.Venezuela's natural regions (Regiones naturales) are divided by natural geography, and administrative regions (Regiones político-administrativas) are delineated for the purpose of regional administration.
Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e. a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself. [4]
In 1889, a year after Antonio Guzmán Blanco left power definitively, it was decided in a new territorial reorganization, to rename the Guzmán Blanco State with the name of "Estado Miranda", excluding from this new arrangement what was the province of Aragua.
Yaracuy (Spanish: Estado Yaracuy, [2] IPA: [esˈtaðo ʝaɾaˈkuj];) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. [3] [4] Yaracuy is located in the Central-Western Region, Venezuela.It is bordered by Falcón in the north, in the west by Lara, in the south by Portuguesa and Cojedes and in the east by Cojedes and Carabobo.
The Sucre State (Spanish: Estado Sucre, [2] [3] IPA: [esˈtaðo ˈsukɾe]) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. [4] [5] The state capital is Cumaná city.Sucre State covers a total surface area of 11,800 km 2 (4,600 sq mi) and, as of the 2011 census, had a population of 896,921.
The Hereford Mappa Mundi, about 1300, Hereford Cathedral, England. A mappa mundi (Latin [ˈmappa ˈmʊndiː]; plural = mappae mundi; French: mappemonde; Middle English: mappemond) is any medieval European map of the world.
The Guayana natural region (Spanish: Región natural de Guayana), also simply known as Guayana (English: Guiana) in Venezuela, is a large massif of approximately 441,726 km 2 (170,551 sq mi) area, equivalent to 48.2% of the total continental territory of the country.