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4 items (produced to illustrate: 'Military Report on Eastern Turkey in Asia... 1893',...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/515
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- MPK 1/515
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1893-1894
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4 items (produced to illustrate: 'Military Report on Eastern Turkey in Asia... 1893', by Captain F R Maunsell, Royal Artillery) extracted from FO 881/6565. South-west Asia: Caucasus, Middle East and Turkey. Map on 4 sheets, showing the area between Sinop (now in Turkey), Batum (now Bat'umi, Georgia), Yerevan (now in Armenia), Tabriz (now in Iran), Basrah (now in Iraq) and Aleppo (now Halab, Syria): (1) IDWO 1058: 'Part 1. Country from the Black Sea to Sivas and Erzerum [now Erzurum]'; (2) IDWO 1059: 'Part 2. Central Kurdistan'; (3) IDWO 1060: 'Part 3. Country North of the Persian Gulf'; (4) IDWO 1061: 'Part IV. Country from the Gulf of Alexandretta [now Iskenderun] to Erzerum and Bitlis'. Reference tables to routes passable and difficult for troops, and navigable rivers; explanation of Turkish terms. Scale:1:1,500,000, except item 2: 1:1,013,760. Compiled by Captain Mansell; lithographed at the Intelligence Division, War Office, 1894. Sheet sizes between 33 cm x 54.5 cm and 78.5 cm x 56 cm.
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- 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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- IDWO 1058; IDWO 1059; IDWO 1560; IDWO 1561
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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 4505.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980536/
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