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).