GUILLAUME LE VASSEUR SENIOR DE BEAUPLAN ŞI HIDROGRAFIA NORD-VESTULUI MĂRII NEGRE ÎN SECOLUL AL XVII-LEA. (Romanian)

Cossacks' navigation in the second half of the 16th century and to the middle of 17 th century contributed decisively to the discovery of the Black Sea for the Occident and this connaissance is due certainly to Guillaume Le Vasseur senior de Beauplan, a French military engineer in service of the Polish kings from 1630 to 1647. He elaborated three essential maps -- Delineatio generalis camporum desertorum vulgo Ukraina (1648), Delineatio specialis et accurata Ukrainae (1650), Nova totius Regni Poloniae (1652), and a book -- Description des contrées du Royaume de Pologne (Rouen, 1651), later edited as Description d'Ukranie (1660), dedicated to Jan Kazimir, king of Poland. Only the 1660, 1661 and 1662 editions of Description d'Ukranie added to the general map of Ukraine a file with Crimea. Like the 1673 edition, they contained special maps as Delineatio Provinciae Turcicae Budziak dicta, Delineatio Provinciae Turcicae ad modum desertae Dziaricrimenda dictae, Borysthenis Fluvii pars ultraliminariis vulgo Zaporoze (unde «Cozacci Zaporoschy dicuntur») ab Insula Chortijca usque ad Pontum Euxinum. Grace to his informations it is possible to reconstitute the historical landscape of the North-North-West shores of Black Sea, the Cossacks navigation and Ottoman reaction to this severe attempt against the Sublime Porte control over the Pontic basin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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