[Middle East] /
ACKU
contributor American Geographical Society of New York.
[New York] : [American Geographical Society], [between 1918 and 1920].
1 map ; 51 x 85 cm.
English
Middle East – Maps.
Railroads – Middle East – Maps.
Railroads – Middle East – Maps.
,Middle East Genre Road maps.
G7420. / M533 1920
Library of Congress Classification / Map
3ACKU000507367
“Description Shows railroads, roads and geographic divisions as they were before the end of World War I. Map centered on Iran. LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image”.
“Map of Western Asia, Circa 1918−20 : This map of western Asia produced by the American Geographical Society (AGS) of New York dates from the period immediately after World War I. A similar map in the collection of the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is thought to have been made by the AGS for the use of the American delegation to the peace negotiations in Versailles in 1918−19. The map shows Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula, Persia (present-day Iran), and Afghanistan. Iraq is still shown as part of Turkey (the Ottoman Empire). The League of Nations mandates for Syria, Iraq, and Palestine, adopted at the peace conference, are not yet shown. Qatar is indicated as El Katr; Doha and Wakrah are shown as Dohah and Wakra. India (i.e., British India) includes present-day Pakistan. The Soviet Union, with its constituent republics in Central Asia (Russian Turkistan), has not yet been formed. The map has three scales: miles, kilometers, and Russian versts”—copied from website.
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