Generalkarte des Türkischen Kriegsschauplatzes - Antique map

Author: Kiepert, Heinrich

Publisher: Dietrich Reimer

Published: Berlin

Publishing year: 1916

Ottoman Empire. "Generalkarte des Türkischen Kriegsschauplatzes auf Grund der Carte Generale des Provinces Europeennes et Asiatiques de l'Empire Ottoman". Orig. lithogpraphy after H. Kiepert's map. Published by D. Reimer (E. Vohsen) in Berlin, (1916). With title cartouche and explanatory notes. 86:116 cm (34 x 45 3/4 inch.).

This map, published in Berlin in July 1916, shows the Turkish theater of World War I. It is based on an 1884 map in French of the Asian provinces of the Ottoman Empire by German geographer and cartographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-99). The Ottoman territories, shown in pink, include present-day Turkey, Cyprus, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, as well as Saudi Arabia. - 24 sections mounted on canvas.

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Tags: Antique map, Antique maps, Old maps, Kiepert, Ottoman Empire, Dietrich Reimers Generalkarte des Türkischen Kriegsschauplatzes, Lithography, 1916