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1 extract from CAB 21/77. 'Berlin-Baghdad or"Mittel Europa" '. Map of eastern Europe,...
Catalogue reference: MPI 1/389
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This record is about the 1 extract from CAB 21/77. 'Berlin-Baghdad or"Mittel Europa" '. Map of eastern Europe,... dating from 1916 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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MPI 1/389
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1916
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1 extract from CAB 21/77. 'Berlin-Baghdad or"Mittel Europa" '. Map of eastern Europe, North Africa and the south-west Asia, showing 'Pan-German expansion in Europe from the Argonne to the Pinsk Marshes (area 143,655 sq. miles held by Germanic Powers up to June 1916)'. The map shows the whole of the Berlin to Baghdad route and the northern part of the Arabian peninsula, with extensions into parts of France and Belgium, and the oil fields in Persia (now Iran). A note on the map points to the 'Cairo to Cape Route, failing German Freedom of the Sea'. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to approximately 175 miles. G W Bacon & Company.
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English
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58.5 cm x 70.1 cm
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Open Document, Open Description
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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