Relief map found at folio 64 of 'Reconnaissances in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, North-West Persia and Luristan, Volume I', by F R Maunsell. The map shows Rawanduz and the surrounding territory, including the Rhubar Gorge, and is bounded on the east by the Beni Hindawin range. The map shows hydrolog...
‘Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia’
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The map sheet is one of seven maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1. It shows the names and locations of key settlements and regions during the period of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires. These are superimposed in red ink over a map of the eastern Ottoman Empire. Portrays hydrology, relief by...
‘The Provinces of the Abbasid Caliphate, showing the chief high roads’
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The map sheet is one of seven maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1. It depicts the Abbasid Caliphate, divided into its administrative provinces. Portrays lakes, swamps, and the routes of major rivers, and shows key settlements, major roads, and pilgrimage routes to Mecca. Drawn and printed by S...
‘Sketch of APPROACHES TO KUWEIT HARBOUR AND SHATT AL ARAB’
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The map sheet is one of six maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/FO25. It is an Admiralty sea map and shows the approaches to Kuweit [Kuwait] Harbour and the Shatt Al Arab. It indicates heights above water springs, depth soundings, different types of lights and buoys, gravel, mud, rock, sand, shells...
Précis on commerce and communication in the Persian Gulf, 1801-1905
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The volume is a précis on trade and communications in the Persian Gulf. It was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha and published by the Government of India, Foreign Department, Simla in 1906. The volume begins with a preface by Saldanha, written on 26 March 1906, and is then organised into five ...
The map shows a region of eastern Africa around Obokh [Obock] at the northern entrance to the Gulf of Tajura, indicating buildings, hydrology, soundings and navigation lights, with short descriptions of vegetation and tidal conditions, and a brief note on the visibility of buoys. The map was com...