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The "Table Geographic of Greece" is an extremely rare map published in Vienna in 1800 (2nd edition 1810) by Anthimos Gazis. By scholars it was originally considered a reissue in smaller dimensions of the Charter of Riga Velestinlis, but modern research showed that despite many similarities between them, Pinax is a work of autonomous, with significant differences from the Charter.

The full title of the map is: “Pinax Geographic of Greece With Old and New Names. Ed. by A. A. Gazi Miliotou and published by Francois Muller. Dedicated to the Geni of the Greeks. a.o. 1800. In Vienna “ Nowhere in the Table is a direct reference made to the Charter, except the title itself, where the label “severe” is interpreted as a link between the two maps. The Table has as publisher and engraver (as in the case of the Charter) François Muller (Franz Müller), while in copies of the second edition of 1810, Jean Cappi is referred to as editor.

Because of the Austrian censorship, the name of Riga, which had been murdered only two years ago (1798) is not mentioned in the Table. In the front of the Table Gazis is limited to the labelling that it is a "corrected version" without indicating which particular version it refers to. According to recent data, however, Gazis secretly paid tribute to Rigas, drawing on the Table the date of his capture by the Austrians (12th month 1797), with a reverse indication of it (i.e. 79 21) in a practically invisible point of the map front, first revealed in 2022, thanks to a strong scan (scanning) of the point of this map. (see article in “Editors' Journal” 8/1/2022 entitled: “A bottle in the sea 222 years ago. » (https://www.efsyn.gr/nisides/326671 e)

The Table has smaller dimensions than the Charter (104 X 102 cm) and was printed on eleven sheets, without many of the additional “thematic” additions of the Charter (currency, comments, lists of heroes, double toponyms), with the addition of Cyprus and Sicily, with variations in the iconic card, on a two-time scale (1:1,200,000), and, as shown by the comparative study of the two maps, with differences in its cartographic prolific context, following several points different coastline standards. In addition, the Table was mainly educational, not revolutionary like the Charter, and was intended to strengthen the geographical component of the School that Anthimos Gazis planned to establish in the Milies of Pelion.

The two maps depict the same geographical "window", the region of the SE Mediterranean South of the Danube and part of Asia Minor. In two inserts at the bottom of the map, Sicily is added and - for the first time on a Greek map - Cyprus, thus broadening the geographical coverage of the Charter with references to two areas with historically significant Greek presence, apart from traditional ones, such as