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Turkey: Bosporus: 'The Bosporus ... (Cutting from Chart 1198)'. Map showing position...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/3432
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- FO 925/3432
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1888-1891
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Turkey: Bosporus: 'The Bosporus ... (Cutting from Chart 1198)'. Map showing position and strength of defence works. Inset views of the coast. Reference table to armaments in 1888. Scale one inch to 0.5 sea miles. Compass rose. Lithographed by Malby and Sons. Illustrating NID report no 194: 'Turkey. Coast Defences in Europe, Asia and Africa. 1889'. A revised version of the map that accompanied Supplement number 1, issued in 1891.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- 38 cm x 50 cm
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- Lithographed, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 4580.
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