Abstract
Klaudyan's map from 1518 (500 years ago) is the oldest printed map of Bohemia: it was made by a doctor and printer from Mladá Boleslav, Mikuláš Klaudyán (Nicolaus Claudianus). The map has dimensions of 46x55 cm, south orientation and a scale of approximately 1: 618,000.
In the upper part is a portrait of king Louis II of Hungary, a number of coats of land and leading nobles, etc. Map is of high quality (all of the sites that have been mapped can be precisely determined) and has been repeatedly copied over the next decades.
Other maps of Bohemia have been created after more than 50 years. Klaudyan's map is not only a cartographic work but also a piece fo art.