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The Balkans: 'Commission Européenne pour la délimitation du Monténégro. 1880. Frontière...

Catalogue reference: FO 925/3132

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FO 925/3132
Date
1880-1881
Description

The Balkans: 'Commission Européenne pour la délimitation du Monténégro. 1880. Frontière entre le Lac de Scutari et la Mer'. European Commission for the delimitation of Montenegro, border between the Lake of Scutari and the Sea. Map shows boundary as proposed by the Powers and by the Porte. Reference table. Compass indicator. Signed by Captain M T Sale, Royal Engineers, British Commissioner, and Colonel Sollogoub, Russian Commissioner. Certified by Sale, 11 January 1881, to be a copy of the original map drawn in 1879 (see FO 925/3346), and enclosed in his despatch number 5 of 11 January 1881 (see FO 97/531). A note states that area between Padskale, Crwenij-Kamen and the River Bojana was based on information taken from the Austrian Admiralty chart of the Adriatic at 1:350,000 and was not verified on the spot. Subsequently zincographed at the Intelligence Department, War Office, February 1881.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Dimensions
47 cm x 62.5 cm
Map scale
1:50000
Physical condition
MS, coloured, on tracing cloth
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Administrative / biographical background
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 5008.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3819496/

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