|
COLLECTION OF MAPS
Established
during the early 1960s, the collection contains over 600 copies of maps,
plans, and atlases. However, sections made by the Serbian or
Austro-Hungarian cartographers in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries and most often at 1:75000 scale prevail. Apart from them, worth
of mentioning are those created in Serbian cartographic workshop at Corfu, during the exile of the
Serbian government in the World War One.
|
|
The range of maps is very extensive and according to the
subject of their representation, any list of the principal types includes
historical (graphic representations of historical events, such are military
operations, various sieges, demarcations after the battles or wars, march
routes, etc), administrative, highways, geologic, population distribution,
hydrographic, soil, customs, seismologic, cultural, tourist...
The oldest and most valuable maps in the collection are
copperplates from the 18th century. They are followed by the
maps of Serbian cartographers of the 19th century, which are
considered the prototypes of the late development of the Serbian
cartography (for example, Jovan Bugarski’s map of the Principality of Serbia from 1845, printed
in Belgrade). Of notable
importance are heterogeneous atlases of Jovan Cvijic from the early 20th
century, as well as the Album of Yugoslav war maps, printed in Washington in 1943, as a
result of the work of American intelligence.
|
