Maps of Cornwall
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Cornwall was originally known as Kernow or West Wales and this name applied to the Kingdom of Cornwall during the period of the Heptarchy (which referred to the separate kingdoms which made up Anglo-Saxon Angleland or England). One of the oldest maps still in existence depicting Cornwall is the 1290 Hereford Mappa Mundi currently on display in Hereford Cathedral in the United Kingdom. Many maps of the British Isles prior to the 17th century showed Cornwall (Cornubia/Cornwallia/Kernow) as a nation on a par with Wales and examples include the maps of Sebastian Münster, Abraham Ortelius, and Girolamo Ruscelli. After the 17th century, maps of Cornwall tended to no longer make the distinction between Anglia and Cornubia, the British Sea was renamed the English Channel and Cornwall was no longer shown as a separate entity from England on maps of the British Isles.
[edit] See also
- Hundreds of Cornwall
- Cornish people
- List of topics related to Cornwall
- History of Cornwall
- The Wikipedia Cornwall Portal
- Maps of the UK and Ireland
[edit] External links
- Map of the nations of the British Isles (Heptarchy)
- Sebastian Munster 1540
- Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and England - Sebastian Munster 1550
- Britannia Insula - 1548 - George Lily
- Girolamo Ruscelli 1561
- Cornewallia Wallia 1564
- Anglia. 1595 Abraham Ortelius
- Maps of Cornwall
