Middle East countries : Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Saudi-Arabia / contributor Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.).
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Louis, Mo : Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, [1955].Description: 1 map : color ; 84 x 84 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - G7420. M533 1955
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Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | G7420.M533 1955 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. | 3ACKU000506872 |
“Description Shows eastern parts of Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, as well as parts of Eritrea and Ethiopia. Relief shown by gradient tints, contours, and spot heights. First published in August 1950 (ACIC), revised February 1955 (ACIC)”.
“This map of the Middle East, originally published in August 1950 and revised in February 1955, was issued by the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, Air Photographic and Charting Service, Military Air Transportation Service (MATS), of the United States Air Force. In addition to Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, it shows the eastern parts of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium of Sudan as well as parts of Eritrea and Ethiopia. Many borders on the map, particularly on the Arabian Peninsula, are shown as still undetermined. Territories shown on the map as still under colonial administration include the Aden Protectorate, French Somaliland (present-day Djibouti), British Somaliland (present-day Somalia), and Italian Somaliland (present-day Somalia). The armistice lines between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria reflect those established after the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. During the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force viewed the Middle East primarily through the prism of global military rivalry with the Soviet Union. It operated several installations in or near the region, notably Wheelus Air Base in Libya from 1948 to 1970, and Dhahran Airfield in Saudi Arabia from 1945 to 1962”—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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