The French military engineer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Vasseur_de_Beauplan" class="extiw" title="en:Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan">Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan</a> (1595-1685), completed in the first half of the 17th century the extensive survey of the Ukraine commissioned by the king of Poland <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_IV_Vasa" class="extiw" title="en:Władysław IV Vasa">Władysław IV Vasa</a>. Apart from the extensive map of the Ukraine which was finished in 1639, De Beauplan worked for a long time on a detailed map in six sheets that was only finished in 1651. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Joan Blaeu">Joan Blaeu</a> (1598-1673) reduced the size of this map to a series of four separate maps. This is the first sheet of the series.
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