Abstract
The author proves the existence of four lakes on a Mercator's map from AD 1593. In thefirst part he explains the genesis of the map. The causes why the lakes disappeared and when it happened were adduced in the second part of the paper.
Highlights
The author proves the existence of four lakes on a Mercator's map from AD 1593
Till the period of Renaissance the Croatian regions had been represented in a number of cartographic works – from al-Idrīsī’s map to the Catalan portolanos (MARKOVIĆ, 1993; KOZLIČIĆ, 1995)
It is a matter of fact, that he had never been in Croatia
Summary
The Little Ice Age, the term introduced seventy years ago, was a period of worldwide lower temperatures lasting from about AD 1500 to about AD 1850 (GROVE, 1988). To mention some of them, let’s begin with Sanudo’s note of a downpour during October and November 1500, just in the Knin area (SANUDO, 1859) Among snowy tempests those ones from January and February 1549 (KUKULJEVIĆ SAKCINSKI, 1857), March 1550, the period from January till April 1551, March 1556, April 1559 were especially memorized (KUKULJEVIĆ SAKCINSKI, 1857). Present-day brackish Vrana lake (between Zadar and Šibenik) was mentioned as a fresh-water one in 1630 It could be an effect of the fall quantity (FORTIS, 1984). The precipitation of such a large quantity used to create temporary lakes in the areas without surface streams (FORTIS, 1984) This is an excerpt from the notes of the Little Ice Age meteorological phenomena only. All of prerequisite conditions for erosion process were fulfilled
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