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2 items extracted from FO 78/2922. Ottoman Empire: Bulgaria and Romania. (1) 'Frontière...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/520
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This record is about the 2 items extracted from FO 78/2922. Ottoman Empire: Bulgaria and Romania. (1) 'Frontière... dating from 1875-1878 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPK 1/520
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1875-1878
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items extracted from FO 78/2922. Ottoman Empire: Bulgaria and Romania. (1) 'Frontière Roumano-Bulgare. Croquis d'apres la Carte Autrichienne sur l'Echelle de 1/300,000': map showing the Bulgarian frontier between Silistra and the Black Sea: as proposed by the Russians and by the Romanians, as laid down in the Treaty of Berlin and as accepted by the Boundary Commission; MS, coloured, on tracing paper; edges damaged. Reference table. Probably traced from item 2. Signed: Colonel R Home, Royal Engineers. (2) Map consisting of 2 copper heliographed sheets of the Austrian Staff Map, joined: P 10 'Silistria [now spelled Silistra]' and [Q 10] 'Küstendze' [now Constanta]. Published 1875 (sheet Q 10) and 1876 (sheet P 10). MS additions, coloured, showing the boundary as in item 1; reference table to additions. Dimensions: (1) 31 cm x 50 cm; (2) 42 cm x 96 cm. Item 1 originally enclosed in Colonel Home's despatch, 26 November [1878]; item 2 previously filed with the same despatch.
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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)
- French and German
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:300000
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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 3931.
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