The document discusses early modern cartography of the borderlands between Croatia and the Ottoman Empire, Venice, and the Habsburg Empire from the 16th to 18th centuries. It analyzes how the three imperial powers approached mapmaking differently based on their needs and priorities, and how their maps reflected geopolitical realities and identities of the time period. Borderlands and identities were complex and multifaceted, as maps from all sides incorporated elements of both reality and imagination according to the mapmaker's context.

1. (Cross)border Cartographic Imaginery of Early Modern Times Dubravka Mlinarić Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies April, 2009

8. early modern principle uti posidetis ita possideatis (COLOUR) vs. traditional (medieval) territory perception (NAMES) Pierre Du Val Les confins des Chrestiens et des Turcs Zn-Z-XVIII-DUV-1663 , detail, Collectio Novak

13. Piri Re’is’s chart + written sailing instructions from Kitab-i Bahriye , 1526, Suleymaniye Library, Istanbul, Faximile: Collectio Novak

14. Map of “ Avsturia v Ma ġ aristan…” - reproduction and fascination by old “western” mapping - transliteration problems : 1 310 = approx. 1919 , toponimastic nomenclature : Isl āw on ī ja, D ā lm āç j ā , I ș ker ( i ) Zara, V a n edik k ū rsez ī - Bay Collectio Novak

16. P.R.Vitezović MAPPA GENERALIS REGNI CROATIAE TOTIUS.. The Croatian State Archives, Zagreb, D.I.60 SELECTIVITY within the SAME CARTOGRAPHIC IMAGINARY: argument of historical continuity of Croatian lands : Dalmatia was called Venetian Croatia (while Slavonia, as a regular part of the Austrian Monarchy was not) the individual program or the unit-idea ( recombined in new patterns ) as the building-blocks of the history of ideas (A.O. Lovejoy)

18. Medical (ideological) neighbo u ring - absence of medical prevention, later implementation of sanitary regulations and quarantine practice in the Ottoman Empire = stereotypes of Bosnian non-hygienic environment of sickness