- file name: mwmap_1078_vawkavysk - document title: Volkovysk (Vawkavysk) Degree Map ca. 1889/1939 - original image dimensions @ 400dpi: 6005px x 9977px - map type: regional, degree - map date: ca. 1889 - map geographical coverage: 1 degree longitude and 1 degree latitude centered around 42E/53N relative to the Ferro Meridian (approx. 53N/24E modern IERS reference), including Białystock, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland - GPS coordinates of map center (approx.): 53.0000, 24.3000 - current place name: Vawkavysk - key places shown: Vawkavysk, Grodno Region, Belarus, plus Pruzhany and more than a hundred nearby towns and villages - map description: A full-color printed copy of sheet 42/53 of the Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa (General Map of Central Europe) produced by the Austro-Hungarian Empire around 1889, reprinted in the late 1930s. One of 266 original sheets which spanned the Empire, this sheet is a 'degree' map covering one degree in both latitude and longitude on a center near Vawkavysk, Grodno Region, Belarus as defined in the earlier Ferro meridian system. The map features towns with prominent buildings indicated schematically, roads, rail lines and stations, waterways, and significant political and agricultural divisions. In addition to the city of Vawkavysk and the town of Pruzhany, more than a hundred other towns and villages are indicated, plus a part of the primeval Puszcza Białowieska (Białowieża Forest). - notes: Copy of an original K.u.K. military institute map, re-issued by the Hauptvermessungsabteilung (main survey department) XIV in Vienna under German rule. This map is adjacent to map mwmap_1029_bialystock.