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4 items (originally enclosed in Count Schouvaloff's letter of 11 / 23 March 1878)...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/470
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MPK 1/470
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1878
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Description (What the record is about)
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4 items (originally enclosed in Count Schouvaloff's letter of 11 / 23 March 1878) extracted from FO 65/1022. South-east Europe and south-west Asia: Balkans; Caucasus; Turkey. 4 maps showing boundaries according to the Treaty of San Stefano, 19 February / 3 March 1878. (1) Showing the area between Ulcinj, Scutari (now Shkodër, Albania), Prijepolje and Foca, with the boundary, between Turkish territory and Montenegro (now part of Yugoslavia), according to Article I of the treaty. (2) Showing the area between Batum (now Bat'umi, Georgia) and Bayazid (now Dogubayazit, Turkey), with the boundary between Russian and Turkish territory, according to Article XIX. (3) Showing the area between Vlasotinci (now in Serbia, Yugoslavia), Visegrad (now in Bosnia-Herzegovina) and the River Danube, with the boundary of an independent Serbia, according to Article III. (4) Showing the area between Vidin (now in Bulgaria) and the Black Sea, and between Salonika (now Thessaloníki, Greece) and the River Drin, with the boundary of the autonomous principality (within the Ottoman Empire) of Bulgaria, according to Article VI. Scales not shown: taken from the FO 925 index. Items 1 and 3-4 based on Kiepert's map of 1870; item 2 based on the Russian Staff map. Dimensions: (1) 43 cm x 31 cm; (2) 53 cm x 71.5 cm; (3) 39 cm x 49 cm; (4) 54.5 cm x 71.5 cm. Subsquently reprinted for Parliament, see: House of Commons Sessional Papers, 1878 LXXXIII 239.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:1000000
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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), entries 4979 (item 1), 4488 (item 2), 5018 (item 3), 722 (item 4).
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980491/
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