1650 Barbaria, North Africa

BARBARIA, Johannes Janssonius (1650)This map by Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664) shows the coast of North Africa, an area known in the 17th century as Barbaria. The upper part of the map represents a general map of North-Africa from the delta of the River Nile to the Canary Islands. The bottom part shows large areas of Algeria, Tunesia and Libya.