‘Persia, Russia & Turkey in Asia’

Title:

‘Persia, Russia & Turkey in Asia’

Date:

1922/1932

Description:

Abstract: Map numbered 1.A (Mount Ararat), and subtitled ‘Azarbāījān [Azerbaijan] Province. Erivan [Yerevan]. Erzerum [Erzurum] & Van Vilayets.’ 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, 1922. 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; the Indo-European Telegraph Line. A new boundary line, drawn in red ink with annotations, 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 367 mm, on sheet 615 x 444 mm.

Language:

English

Type:

Map

Type (Narrower):

Maps

Type (Broader):

Image

Subject:

War Office, Geographical Section
Surveyor General

Geographic region:

Erzerum
Erivan
Mount Ararat

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100063470240.0x000005_ar
81055/vdc_100063470240.0x000005_en
IOR/L/PS/12/3480, f 52
IOR/L/PS/12/3480, f 52

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