Südwest -Asien : possessions of European Powers / contributor Geographisches Institut.
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TextLanguage: German Publication details: Weimar, Germany : C. Ohmann, [1866].Description: 1 map : color ; 34 x 45 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - G7420. S839 1866
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Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | G7420.S839 1866 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. | 3ACKU000506864 |
German language.
“Description Shows color boundaries of possessions of European powers Britain, France and Portugal. Shows possessions of the Ottoman Empire and the "Kingdom of the Imam of Oman." Relief shown by hachures. Names of the British provincial capitals and provincial main areas are underlined. "A. Gräf's Atlas in 41 BL. No. 33." "Gest. v. Th. Luther; Terrain v. L. Kraatz in Berlin." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in inks to show boundaries”.
“This map of Southwest Asia dating from about 1866 shows the possessions of the European powers in this region. The map extends from Libya, Egypt, and Sudan in the west to Mongolia, China (Tibet), and Burma in the east. Colored lines are used to indicate territories controlled by Britain, France, Portugal, and the Ottoman Empire and to delineate what the map calls the kingdom of the imam of Oman. The names of provincial capitals are underlined. British territories in India are divided into six parts: Bengal, the Northwest Provinces, Panjab, the Central Provinces, Madras, and Bombay. The map was issued by the Geographical Institute of Weimar, an important German publisher of maps, globes, and statistical yearbooks that was founded in 1804 and that became known for the high quality of its products. Among the German geographers and cartographers associated with the institute were Adam Christian Gaspari, Carl Ferdinand Weiland, and Heinrich Kiepert”—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.
German