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Maximilian de Traux’s Atlas with Plans of Croatian Towns

Maximilian de Traux was a colonel, military writer and cartographer. He was born in 1766 in Antwerp, and died in Wiener Neustadt in 1817. He was admitted to the Engineering Directorate in Zadar in 1803. He spent two years in Dalmatia, where he worked on maintaining and improving town fortifications. He participated in the survey of Dalmatia, the Bay of Kotor, and North Montenegro. He made several maps, copies of some of which are kept in certain institutions throughout Europe. This paper describes his manuscript atlas entitled Festùngen Dalmatiens und Albaniens nebst vorliegenden Inseln, und Beschreibung (Fortifications of Dalmatia and Albania with the Nearby Islands, and Description), produced in Zadar in 1805. It is dedicated to the Archduke Johann of Austria. The only known copy of the atlas is preserved in the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade, in the Special Collections Department: Cartographic Collection. The atlas is especially significant for Croatia and Montenegro. It contains four maps – Ober Dalmatien (North Dalmatia), Unter Dalmatien (Central Dalmatia), Inseln des Quarners (Kvarner Islands) and Albanien (Albania), and 23 plans of fortified towns accompanied by the town descriptions, of which 17 are Croatian. In alphabetical order, they are: Drniš, Hvar, Klis, Knin, Korčula, Makarska, Opuzen, Osor, Pag, Sinj, Split, Supetar, Šibenik, Trogir, Zadar and Zadvarje, and the fortress on the islet of St. Peter. The atlas also contains plans of former Austrian Albanian towns, which are in present-day Montenegro: Kotor, Herceg Novi, Budva, Perast and St. Stefan, and Holy Trinity Fortress. The atlas includes descriptions of Dalmatia and the Dalmatian islands, and a description of former Austrian Albania, i.e. part of Montenegro today.

Maximilian de Traux, atlas, maps, plans, Croatian towns

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