This map of the Grand Duchy of Lituania is dedicated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Joan Blaeu">Joan Blaeu</a> (1598-1673) to a member of the Russian Sovereignty Radziwill. That was not a coincidence. Some of the Radziwils had ordered cartographer Matthias Strubicz to map the area between 1584 en 1595. In 1613 a copy of this map appeared, engraved by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessel_Gerritsz" class="extiw" title="en:Hessel Gerritsz">Hessel Gerritsz</a>. (c. 1580-1632) and published by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Janssonius" class="extiw" title="en:Jan Janssonius">Jan Janssonius</a> (1588-1664). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Joan Blaeu">Joan Blaeu</a> copied this map and included it in his atlases from 1648 onwards.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19972007" class="extiw" title="d:Q19972007"><span title="Dutch artist">Dirk Jansz van Santen</span></a>
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1648<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1648-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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