The map Putin inspected appears to be a copy of one made in 1674 by French cartographer Hubert Jaillot, showing parts of eastern Europe and Asia, with cities and territories marked out.

A MAP of Europe and the Middle East on a scale of 1: 11 million has been published by the Royal Geographical Society on behalf of the British Council. The map is drawn on Murdoch's third conical ...

THIS map of Europe, on a scale of i to 5,500,000, is designed to show the political boundaries and the chief lines of communication by land and sea. It makes no attempt to show the surface ...