'Persia and Afghanistan'. With manuscript additions showing 'Persian Territorial Claims'
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Printed sheet bearing the series designation 'Geographical Section, General Staff No. 2149' and providing full country coverage of Persia [Iran] and Afghanistan with significant partial coverage of present-day Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Portrays, hydrology, rel...
Geographical Section, General Staff No. 2555, sheet North J-38, Tabriz, Provisional Edition bearing the imprint 'Compiled at the Royal Geographical Society under the direction of the Geographical Section General Staff. Drawn and printed at the War Office. 1916.' Covers an area of up to 200 mile...
'The Middle East'. With manuscript additions showing Arabic language areas
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Published by 'Admiralty War Staff I[ntelligence].D[ivision].' Covers the Middle East and south-west Asia. Printed map sheet portrays hydrology, railways, settlements, place names and international boundaries. A watercolour wash has been added to show Arabic language areas. Creation date derive...
'The Middle East'. With manuscript additions showing areas of British direct control and spheres of special political influence
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Published by 'Admiralty War Staff I[ntelligence].D[ivision].' Covers the Middle East and south-west Asia. Printed map sheet portrays hydrology, railways, settlements, place names and international boundaries. Watercolour shading has been added to show areas of 'British direct control' and 'Spher...
'Syria. Jaffa - Damascus'. With manuscript additions showing boundary information
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Covers the Syrian coastline extending fifty miles north and south of Haifa and 120 miles inland. [Includes parts of present-day Jordan and the geographical region of Palestine.] Printed map sheet portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and shading, depths by soundings, railways, roads and tra...
'Boundary of Demilitarized Zone about Constantinople. (Meeting of Allied Naval & Military Advisors, London 16.2.20.)'
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Relates to the Treaty of Sèvres (1920). Folios 3 and 4 are copies of the same map, and both bear the classification 'Secret'. Geographical Section, General Staff No. 2943. Portrays hydrology, soundings, relief by spot heights and contours, railways, roads and tracks, telegraphs, settlements, p...
'Map to illustrate the Agreements of 1916 in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, &c.'
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Three identical map sheets. Classified 'Secret'. The map bears a secondary title 'A Map of Turkey in Asia'. Bears the printed designation 'Map 1'. Depicts a proposed division of the Ottoman Empire into spheres of influence and protection by the Allied powers. The division is based on agreemen...
'Map to illustrate the Agreements of 1916.' Turkey in Asia
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Two identical map sheets. The map bears a secondary title 'A Map of Turkey in Asia'. Bears the deleted designation 'Map 1354'. Depicts a proposed division of the Ottoman Empire into spheres of influence and protection by the Allied powers. The division is based on agreements reached between 19...
'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia'. With overprints showing ethnic information, boundaries and communications
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Folios 33 and 34 are copies of the same map. Bears the imprint 'Published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1910. Railways inserted to November, 1917' and the series designation 'G[eographical].S[ection].,G[eneral].S[taff]., No. 2901.' Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and hachures, r...
'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia (Ethnographical)' showing additional frontiers with attached key
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Folio 35 is a map bearing the imprint 'Published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1910. Railways inserted to November, 1917' and the series designation 'G[eographical].S[ection].,G[eneral].S[taff]., No. 2901.' Portrays hydrology, roads, telegraphs, settlements, place names and international bo...
