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Cyprus: map. `A Trigonometrical Survey of the Island of Cyprus'. 'Executed and published...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/3381
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- FO 925/3381
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1882-1885
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Description (What the record is about)
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Cyprus: map. `A Trigonometrical Survey of the Island of Cyprus'. 'Executed and published by command of HE Major-General Sir R Biddulph, KCMG, CB, RA, High Commissioner Under the direction of Captain H H Kitchener, RE, Director of Survey'. Map showing heights, vineyards, roads, telegraph lines, districts, boundaries; Christian, Moslem and mixed villages. Fifteen sheets, title page and index map. Reference tables. Tables explaining transliteration and abbreviations. Drawn by A Munro, draughtsman to the Survey. Hill-shading by Lieutenant S C N Grant, RE, 1882. Survey party directed by Sargeant A Sutherland, Royal Engineers. The map was engraved and lithographed at Stanford's Geographical Establishment, London. Published by Edward Stanford, 8 April 1885.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 63 cm x 43 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:63360
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Lithographed, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 849.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3819744/
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