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1 item extracted from FO 881/8413. South-west Asia, Egypt. 'Damascus-Mekka [Mecca,...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/1346
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from FO 881/8413. South-west Asia, Egypt. 'Damascus-Mekka [Mecca,... dating from 1904 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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MFQ 1/1346
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1904
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from FO 881/8413. South-west Asia, Egypt. 'Damascus-Mekka [Mecca, Makka] Railway': map. Reference table. Produced by Hajji Muklitar Bey, technical adviser of the Hejaz Railway; compiled by Eumer Zekki, Captain of Artillery, and Hassan Muinoff in the Printing Works of the [Turkish] Ministry of Marine; heliozincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1904. Insets: gradient profiles; scale: 1:1,000,000.
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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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Map designation (Identifying numbers or names given to printed maps by their publishers)
- IDWO 1886
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 64 cm x 41 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:3000000
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3984367/
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