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1 map on 6 sheets : col. ; 96 x 159 cm., sheets 55 X 65 cm. "This large map in French containing a wealth of detail about the Asian provinces of the Ottoman Empire is by the German geographer and cartographer Heinrich Kiepert. The map was created in 1884, but a note indicates that railroad routes have been updated to 1912. Important place-names are given in several languages. The Mediterranean Sea, for example, is listed in French, Greek, Turkish, and Arabic. A table at the bottom lists geographic terms in Greek, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic, with their French equivalents. The heights of mountains and bodies of water are given in meters above or below sea level. A note in the upper-right corner of the map lists the sources Kiepert used to compile the information on the map, including railroad and road-building surveys, records of archeological expeditions, accounts by such travelers as Hirschfeld, Ramsay, and Hartmann and Wünsch, and Kiepert's own voyage to Palestine and Egypt in 1870. Kiepert was professor of geography at the University of Berlin for 45 years, from 1854 until his death in 1899. He worked in both modern and ancient historical cartography and had a particular interest in Asia Minor. His first scholarly work, published in 1840, was a study of ancient Greece and its colonies." World Digital Library. dressee par Henri Kiepert, Berlin, 1883. Includes list of geographic terms in eastern languages and notes on administrative divisions. Includes notes on materials the cartographer used to put together the map. LC copy mounted on linen. DLC Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Scale [ca. 1:1,500,000] (E24°00ʹ--E49°00ʹ/N41°00ʹ--N30°00ʹ). Middle East Maps Middle East G7420 1884 .K5 Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g7420.ct003775 2013593036 hdl:loc.gmd/g7420.ct003775 aacr DLC 130220 20250607053027.4 17631584 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)