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Map
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Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | G7420.V673 1855 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. | 3ACKU000507300 |
“Description Shows the boundaries of the Ottoman and Russian empires, British colonies in India and the extents of the Imam of Maskat territory--all in different border colors. Relief shown by hachures. "Terrain gestochen von C. Seitz 1855. Situation und schrift gestochen von C. F. Wolff." "H. Kiepert's Neuer handatlas No. 28. Berlin, Bei Dietrich Reimer." Includes list of topographic terms in Turkish, Arabic and Persian. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image”.
“Map of the Near East : German geographer and cartographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818–99) is generally regarded as one of the most important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century. He was head of the Geographical Institute in Weimar between 1845 and 1852 and professor at the University of Berlin from 1852 until his death. Shown here is Kiepert’s 1855 map of the Near East, which appeared in the Kiepert’s Neuer Hand-Atlas über alle Teile der Erde (Kiepert’s new portable atlas of all parts of the world), published by Dietrich Reimer, with whom Kiepert had a long association. The map covers the region between the eastern Mediterranean and the border of Afghanistan with British India. Different colors are used to mark the borders of the Ottoman and Russian empires, British possessions and protectorates in India, and the territory of the imam of Maskat (present-day Muscat). In the lower left-hand corner is a list of topographic terms in Turkish, Arabic, and Persian with their German equivalents”—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