The map of the county Zeeland was based for a long time on a general map from 1545 by the geographer Jacob van Deventer (c. 1505-1575). Most of the early atlas maps by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Ortelius" class="extiw" title="en:Abraham Ortelius">Abraham Ortelius</a> (1527-1598), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator" class="extiw" title="en:Gerardus Mercator">Gerardus Mercator</a> (1512-1594) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Willem Blaeu">Willem Jansz. Blaeu</a> (1571-1638) Blaeu were based on this important map. In the fifties of the 17th century <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_Visscher_I" class="extiw" title="en:Nicolaes Visscher I">Nicolaes Visscher I</a> (1618-1679) published a new general map on 9 sheets by Zacharias Roman. Visscher reduced this map and it could be found in various atlases in the course of the 17th century.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nicolaes_Visscher_II" class="extiw" title="w:en:Nicolaes Visscher II"><span title="Dutch engraver, cartographer, publisher">Nicolaes Visscher II</span></a>
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before 1680
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