Afghanistan und Seine Nachbarlӓnder : Afghanistan 1914 : Afghanistan und seine Nachbarlander / bearbeitet im kartographischen Institut der Verlagshandlung ; druck und verlag von Carl Flemming.

Material type: TextTextLanguage: German Publication details: [Place of publication not identified] : Carl Flemming, 1914.Description: 1 map : color ; 56 x 74 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • G7630. A386 1914
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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Map Map Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University G7630.A386 1914 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. 3ACKU000507482
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German language.

“Afghanistan and Its Neighboring Countries : This map of Afghanistan and its neighbors was printed in multiple editions by the publishing house of Carl Flemming in Glogau, Germany (present-day Głogów, Poland). The areas covered by the map were the site of an intense rivalry between Great Britain and Imperial Russia during the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The borders of Afghanistan changed repeatedly during the latter part of the 19th century: the border between Baluchistan and Afghanistan was redrawn with the establishment of the Durand Line in 1893, and the borders between Afghanistan and Russian Turkestan to the north and with Persia to the west changed as well. The issuing of new editions of this map would have been complicated by these shifting boundaries. An 1890 printing of the map credits the German cartographer Friedrich Handtke (1815−79) with the original design. The map was published as number 44 of the Generalkarte (general maps) published by the Carl Flemming firm. Its designation “general” distinguishes this map from those used for educational purposes, as well as from those that were used for specialized scientific purposes”—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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