ANSTHRLD - Documentation for Bamberg

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On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 Kathri at aol.com wrote:
> Can anyone date the spelling "Bamberg" to period? It is a city in
> northern Bavaria. I have a source which implies, but does not state,
> that the spelling was used by 1520.  

_Blaeu's The Grand Atlas of the 17th Century World_, Barnes and Noble,
1997 reprint, p. 51, has it at 45 horiz by 50 vertical spelled
"Bamburg".  The map "dating originally from the 1630s.  ... by the
time it was issued in 1662 ...".  The origin of the atlas was Dutch.

Daniel de Lincolia
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