Kart Verden

The Balkans and South-Eastern Europe on a road map from Freytag and Berndt, covering a large chunk of the Continent from southern Poland and Kiev to the Mediterranean, and from Naples to Ankara. The map shows the area’s road network, indicating diving distances on principal routes and main border crossings. Railways and ferry routes are marked. In most countries internal administrative boundaries are also shown.

In Greece, Bulgaria and Ukraine (but not Serbia) names of main cities are shown both in Latin alphabet and in Greek or Cyrillic. The map has a latitude and longitude grid at intervals of 1º. Multilingual map legend includes English.

A booklet attached to the map cover contains an index, arranged by country, plus street plan of central Athens, Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, Chisinau, Istanbul, Kiev, Ljubljana, Podgorica, Prague, Pristina, Sarajevo, Skopje, Tirana, Vienna and Zagreb.

• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:2 000 000

Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. Russia doesn’t count because it is mostly in Asia and is generally disliked by everyone. At the moment, Ukraine is holding its own against a concerted attack by Russia to decimate it and make it part of Putin’s Russia. Under normal circumstances, no one should be publishing a map of Ukraine in the middle of a devastating war, but surprisingly, it is one of our best-selling maps for Europe and has gone through three editions over the last three years. The reason is not tourism per se, but information, which is needed by policy makers, aid groups, and armchair followers of developing events. It is also interesting to see an evolving pattern of place name changes as Ukraine gets rid of Russian-imposed names. Bakhmut, location of a famous battle a year ago, is a case in point. All maps, until now, show the old Russian name; only ITMB’s map shows the new Ukrainian name. With each new edition, we find more names that have changed. So, this map is not important for showing road conditions or power lines because such matters are in the hands of the gods of war. This map is essential for everyone because we are all affected by what happens in Ukraine. ITMB is fortunate in having a cartographer whose passion is Ukraine and is always coming up with yet another place that has changed its name, but nobody noticed. We show the country as it should be, with eastern regions and Crimea being a legitimate part of the country.

• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale:  Vanntett papir
• Målestokk: 1:1 000 000

Ukraine and Moldova with eastern Romania, on a large, indexed road map with street plans of central Kiev and Chisinau. Place names are in Roman alphabet, with main towns also given in Cyrillic.

Road network includes local roads and cart tracks and shows driving distances on main routes and locations of border crossings. Railways and local airports are shown, as well as internal administrative boundaries with names of the provinces. National parks or protected areas are marked and main places of interest highlighted. Topographic information is limited to names of main mountain and hill ranges and selected spot heights.

The map has latitude and longitude lines at intervals of 1º. Multilingual map legend includes English. Index of localities is in a separate booklet attached to the map cover and lists locations in each country separately, including places in the adjoining areas of neighbouring countries. The booklet also includes plans of central Kiev and Chishinau.

• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:1 000 000