The Eastern question in Europe and Asia / Edward Standford Ltd.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Edward Stanford, 1886.Description: 1 map : color ; 42 x 68 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - G7420. E388 1886
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Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | G7420.E388 1886 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. | 3ACKU000506823 |
“Description "Geo. Cawston" "London: Published by Edward Stanford, 55, Charing Cross, S.W. January 1, 1886." Includes statistical tables of religion, population, surface area, and military personnel”.
“In the late-19th century, European politics were troubled by what had come to be called the “Eastern Question,” the fate of the 600-year Ottoman Empire. Once encompassing the Ottoman heartland of Anatolia (present-day Turkey), most of the Arab Middle East, and the Balkan Peninsula, by 1886 the empire had shrunk dramatically as a result of wars with European powers, Russia in particular, and revolts by subject peoples. This 1886 map, published in London, shows the Turkish Empire as comprised mainly of Albania, Thrace, Crete, Anatolia, and parts of the Arab world, notably present-day Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Railroads, roads, telegraphs, mountain passes and their height in feet (one foot = 30.5 centimeters), and the summits of mountain ranges—all geographic features with military implications—are shown. Tables at the bottom of the map list the major religions of the world and the number of their adherents, and the principal states with a stake in the Eastern Question and their land area, population, and the size of their peacetime and wartime armies. The states covered are the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, Greece, Russia, Turkey, China, India (at that time part of the British Empire), and Persia (present-day Iran)”—copied from website.
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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