<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This 1719 map of "ancient Asia" (Asia Vetus) divides Sarmatia into Sarmatia Europea and Sarmatia Asiatica . The continental boundary is drawn along the Tanais (Don), the Volga and the Northern Dvina . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Herman Moll (c. 1715) draws the boundary along the Don, the Volga, cutting across land from Samara to the Tobol River, following the lower Irtysh and finally the Ob River, placing Novaya Zemlya in Europe . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> A German map of 1730 by Johann Christoph Homann has a similar boundary to the one shown by Moll, but following the full length of the Samara bend and then cutting across to the Irtysh directly, placing the Tobol and Tobolsk in Asia . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> The "Academy Atlas" of the Russian Empire, published by The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1745, draws the boundary along the Don, but then west of the Volga to Arkhangelsk </Td> </Tr>

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