Probably the earliest depiction of Diu, from 1572; *a HUGE version of this image*
Source:
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/india/diu/maps/braun_hogenberg_I_57_3.html
(downloaded Feb. 2006)
"From Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum I 54. Date: first Latin edition of volume I was published in 1572. After: an unidentified Portuguese manuscript."
From Braun and Hogenberg, "Civitates Orbis Terrarum," German edition, c.1580
Source: ebay, June 2006
"Diu in Arabia," from the
'Sciographia Cosmica' by Daniel Meisner and successors, 1627,
with modern hand coloring; the view is based on Braun and
Hogenberg, which in tern is based on an earlier anonymous
woodcut
Source: ebay, Oct. 2011
*A view from a Portuguese atlas, 1630*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2007
"City of Diu," from 'The Universal Traveller', by Thomas Salmon, London, 1729
Source: ebay, Mar. 2007
'Citadel of Diu' and 'Death of Sultan Badar', a copperplate engraving published in Paris in 1733; *a detail of the battle scene*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2001
"City of Diu," a map by Bellin, 1746; *a very large view of the map*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2001
"Siege de Diu" (by an Ottoman expeditionary force in 1538), a copper-engraved print from *PREVOST*, c.1760
Source:
http://www.antiqueprints.com/proddetail.php?prod=e3119&cat=34
(downloaded Nov. 2004)
*"Siege of Diu by the Arabians," a reworking of the above image, from Middleton's Geography, 1778*
Source: ebay, May 2006
The old fort of Diu, as it looks today
Source:
http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/3463/sort/1/cat/all/page/8
(downloaded Feb. 2005)
A gateway in the fort
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61337795@N00/125656347/
(downloaded Feb. 2007)
The old Diu fort-- a detail
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/germeister/297677206/
(downloaded Feb. 2007)
Diu Fort-- an old cannon still in its embrasure
Source:
http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/187/sort/1/cat/all/page/16
(downloaded Feb. 2005)
The old St. Thomas's Church has now been converted into the Diu Museum
Source: http://www.flat3.co.uk/india/pages/990029.htm
(downloaded Apr. 2006)
*The former St. Thomas's Church, now the Diu Museum, is lit up at night for tourists*
Source:
http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/10725
(downloaded Apr. 2006)
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