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050 0 0 _aG7420.
_bG488 1874
245 0 0 _aGeneral map of central Asia :
_bschematic view.
255 _aScale 1:3,024,000.
260 _aVienna :
_bK. K. Milit. Geografischen Institute,
_c[1874].
300 _a1 map ;
_b125 x 137 cm.
500 _aGerman language. “Description Prime meridian: Ferro. Accompanied by an index map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image”.
500 _a“General Map of Central Asia: Schematic View : General-Karte von Central-Asien (General map of Central Asia) is a large, detailed map produced in 1874 by the Military Geographic Institute of Vienna. The map is on 12 separate plates, numbered I–XII; a 13th plate gives an overview and a numbered guide to how the parts fit together. The map covers a huge expanse, bounded to the northwest by the region of Russia north of the Caspian Sea; to the southwest by present-day Saudi Arabia and Oman; to the northeast by western Mongolia; and to the southeast by Gujarat, India. The title, key to symbols, and explanation of abbreviations are on Plate X, in the lower left-hand (southwestern) corner. Seven scales in different distance units (English, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Persian, Chinese, and metric) are provided, at the bottom of Plate XII. The features shown include cities and towns; national and provincial borders; towers, fortresses, and ruins; existing and projected railroads; telegraph lines; and roads. According to the title, the map is “revised with the best and newest Russian and English sources.” Russia and the British Empire were rivals for influence in Central Asia in what came to be called “the Great Game,” and they had special expertise about the region gained from scientific and military expeditions and commercial contacts”—copied from website.
500 _aThe 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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651 0 _aMiddle East – Maps.
651 0 _aAfghanistan – Maps.
856 _qPDF
_uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7420_g488_1874
_zScanned for ACKU.
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_cMAP
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