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2 items extracted from FO 78/2836. South-east Europe. (1) Map of area between Vidin...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/10
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This record is about the 2 items extracted from FO 78/2836. South-east Europe. (1) Map of area between Vidin... dating from 1877-1878 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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- 1877-1878
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2 items extracted from FO 78/2836. South-east Europe. (1) Map of area between Vidin (now in Bulgaria), Kumanovo (now in Macedonia) and Kyustendil (now in Bulgaria), and the Rivers Drina and Danube, showing positions and movements of troops in the Serbian Campaign. Scale:1:715970. Map subsequently lithographed at a slightly reduced scale by Harrison & Sons, London. The map illustrates an account of the campaign by Lionel Marshall, British Vice-Consul, Serbia, forwarded in W A White's despatch number 19 of 1 February 1878. (2) Map traced from Kiepert's 'General-Karte von der europaischen Türkei'. Country occupied by Serbia at the close of the war, with demarcation line fixed by Russia. Reference table. Note on military positions not shown on the map. Scale: 1:500000. Signed by Lionel Marshall, British Vice-Consul, Belgrade, and enclosed in despatch of 23 February 1878. Dimensions: (1) 58 cm x 52.5 cm; (2) 31 cm x 45 cm. FO 925/3110 is part of Kiepert's map, with the information from Marshall's tracing added in MS.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entries 4937, 4939
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