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The Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667, also called the Thirteen Years' War, [7] Muscovite War of 1654–1667 [8] and the First Northern War, [7] was a major conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Map of Tendre (Carte de Tendre or Carte du Tendre) was a French map of an imaginary land called Tendre produced by several hands (including Catherine de Rambouillet).It appeared as an engraving (attributed to François Chauveau) in the first part of Madeleine de Scudéry's 1654-61 novel Clélie.
1654 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1654th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 654th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1654, the ...
Смоленский поход и битва при Шепелевичах 1654 года [Smolensk campaign and the battle of Shepelevichi in 1654)] (in Russian). ISBN 978-5-9909607-1-8. Babulin, Igor (2009). Князь Семен Пожарский и Конотопская битва [Prince Semyon Pozharsky and the Battle of Konotop] (in ...
The map of Ukraine made by Johann Homann, refers to it as Ukraine, or the Land of Cossacks (Latin: Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum). The Russian poet Alexander Pushkin also talks about "Ukraine" rather than "Cossack Hetmanate" in his poem Poltava describing events around the 1709 Battle of Poltava .
Surviving parts of the maps have been published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission as DOWN SURVEY (1654–1656) Copies of both Hiberniae Delineatio and the edited barony maps are available in Special Collections at UCC. Another group of maps from this Survey, the parish maps, are available in microfilm at UCC.
Morden also produced in 1701 a series of smaller county maps often known as Miniature Mordens. In 1695 he published a map of Scotland. It is in parts (e.g. Skye and the Western Isles) essentially a copy of the 1654 map done by Robert Gordon of Straloch, published by Joan Blaeu; other parts show evidence of more accurate cartography.
"Nithia Vicecomitatus": 1654 map of Nithsdale (with north to the right). [1]The name Strath Nid may represent the Cumbric Ystrad Nidd; Cumbric (a variety of Common Brittonic) was the dominant language in this area from before Roman times until the 11th or 12th century, whereas Gaelic influence here was late and transient.