A map showing Great Britain's colonial possessions
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A map showing much of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, with Great Britain's colonial possessions shaded in pink. The map shows a few related place names. The map features the printing statement 'Stanford's Geographical Establishment, London'.
Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia
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A map showing parts of Turkey, Persia, and Arabia. The map gives details of geography, topography, human settlement, hydrology, railways, and some political boundaries. Over the original map has been drawn two distinct areas, labelled A and B and outlined in blue and red, respectively. These in...
‘FRONTIER OF TURKEY IN EUROPE; DEMILITARIZED ZONES OF THE STRAITS AND IN THRACE; THE ISLANDS (DODEKANESIA); GALLIPOLI PENINSULA’
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Map of south-eastern Europe (Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria) affected by the Treaty of Lausanne. The map indicates coastline, hydrology, and human settlements. Also marked on the map are: the Turkish frontier (solid red line); the demilitarised zone in Thrace (blue crosshatch); the demilitarised zones...
The map shows Mesopotamia [Iraq], and part of Western Persia [Iran] East of the Turco-Persian boundary, with the boundary being indicated by a dashed and dotted line. Ottoman administrative divisions in the form of vilayets [provinces] and sanjaks [districts] are also indicated, as are Headquart...
The map shows Mesopotamia [Iraq], and part of western Persia [Iran] east of the Turco-Persian boundary, with the boundary being indicated by a dashed and dotted line. It shows different ethnic groups occupying different parts of Mesopotamia: Arabs in pink; Kurds (including Yezidis) in yellow; an...
‘MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE AGREEMENTS OF 1916 IN REGARD TO ASIA MINOR, MESOPOTAMIA, & c.’
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Classified 'SECRET'. The map bears a secondary title 'A MAP OF TURKEY IN ASIA'. It shows the Asian territories of the Ottoman Empire outside of the Arabian Peninsula, including Asia Minor [Anatolia] and Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Depicts a proposed division of the Ottoman Empire into spheres of infl...
Map showing northern Iraq with lines indicating Turkish-Iraq frontier and Persian-Iraq frontier. Also shown is the approximate British front line on the armistice of 30 October 1918.
Map of area surrounding Tabriz with lines given to reflect the 4th proposal on the Turkish-Iraqi border. A key is given: Red line in crayon – Sevres Treaty Boundary; blue line in crayon – fourth proposal; Green line in crayon – Turco-Persian frontier 1914. Also given is line of incorrect Mosul vi...
Printed map showing John David Rees’s route between Kasveen [Qazvin] to Hamadan, Persia [Iran]. Marked in red is the route taken by the author. The map was projected and plotted by W Starr, Civil Assistant, and detailed and printed by A Humphreys. The map was produced by the Central Survey Offi...
‘ROUGH SKETCH OF ASTARÁBÁD, FROM AN EYE-SKETCH BY LT.-COL. BERESFORD LOVETT, R. E., 1881.’
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This black and white printed sketch map of the city of Astarabad [Gorgan] in Persia [Iran] shows the following features: the crenelated walls of the city; the garden of Abbas Khan; government buildings, the telegraph office, and the magazine; the Russian consulate; the British consulate; the Mas...
