‘Irāq, Persia & Turkey in Asia’

Title:

‘Irāq, Persia & Turkey in Asia’

Date:

1923/1932

Description:

Abstract: Map numbered 1.C (Diza-Gawar [Diza Hawār]), and subtitled ‘Mosul & Kirkuk Divisions. Azarbāījān [Azerbaijan] Province. Van Vilayet.’ An index to the geographical location of the provinces is provided below the map. A caption under the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, Surveyor General of India, 1923. A stamp in the bottom right corner of the map states that it was published by the Geographical Section General Staff, War Office.The map indicates: relief, shown by contours and shading, with elevations given in feet; rivers, lakes, marshes; province and country boundaries; settlements, with place names in English; railways, roads and other transport routes. An additional boundary line, drawn in red ink, has been added to the map.The map is mentioned in a copy of a letter sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (John Allsebrook Simon), dated 1 July 1932, which states that the ‘Turkish military attaché has been so good as to draw upon sheets 1 A, 1 B, and 1 C [...] the line of the new frontier’ (f 48).Physical description: Materials:1 paper folio.Dimensions:462 x 478 mm, on sheet 574 x 434 mm.

Language:

English

Type:

Map

Type (Narrower):

Maps

Type (Broader):

Image

Subject:

War Office, Geographical Section
Surveyor General

Geographic region:

Azerbaijan
Diza-Gawar
Van

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100063470240.0x000004_ar
81055/vdc_100063470240.0x000004_en
IOR/L/PS/12/3480, f 53
IOR/L/PS/12/3480, f 53

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