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(1A) Cover sheet entitled 'Congress of Vienna. Maps.'. (1B) GSGS 2888: 'Partitions...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/153
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This record is about the (1A) Cover sheet entitled 'Congress of Vienna. Maps.'. (1B) GSGS 2888: 'Partitions... dating from 1918 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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- MFQ 1/153
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1918
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Description (What the record is about)
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(1A) Cover sheet entitled 'Congress of Vienna. Maps.'. (1B) GSGS 2888: 'Partitions of Poland'. Map showing boundary of Poland in 1772; boundary of the Kingdom of Poland - 'Congress Poland' - fixed by the Congress of Vienna and the areas absorbed by Russia, Prussia and Austria in the partitions of 1772, 1793 and 1795. Reference table. Scale: 1:4,000,000. Drawn and printed at the War Office, November 1918. (2) GSGS 2892: 'Central & South Eastern Europe. To illustrate Vienna Congress Treaty'. Map showing frontiers in 1792, territories which changed hands in 1815, new frontiers, and states to which territories were transferred, in area between The Hague and Constantinople (now Istanbul). Reference table and note. Scale: 1:4,000,000. Drawn and printed at the War Office, 1918. (3) GSGS 3700: 'North-east frontier of France'. Map showing frontier as in 1792, 1814 and 1815. Also shows waterways, mountains, places by size, fortresses, roads, railways, international frontiers, between 47° and 52°N and between 0° and 9°E. Reference tables. Scale: 1:1,000,000. Sides not parallel because of projection. Printed for the use of the [Versailles] Peace Conference, by the Ordnance Survey, November 1918. Dimensions of sheets: (1B) 35 cm x 35 cm, on sheet 47 cm x 50.5 cm (part of map extends into right margin); (2) 73 cm x 50 cm on a sheet 86 cm x 65 cm (part of map extends into right margin); (3)71 cm x 81 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- FO 373/7/38
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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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 95, 9, 981
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3983174/
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MFQ 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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(1A) Cover sheet entitled 'Congress of Vienna. Maps.'. (1B) GSGS 2888: 'Partitions...
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