Herat, Afghanistan / (Record no. 41181)

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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency ACKU
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Geographic area code a-af---
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number G7634.
Item number H4.
Class number W953 1880
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wyld, James,
Dates associated with a name 1812-1887.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Herat, Afghanistan /
Statement of responsibility, etc published by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen.
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Statement of scale Scale : [1:12,000].
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc [Place of publication not identified] :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc James Wyld,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1880.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 map ;
Dimensions 30 x 24 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note “Shows vineyards, gardens, cultivated ground, gates and selected points of interest. "Copyright" -- upper right margin. "1404"—pasted in lower left corner”.
General note “Herat, Afghanistan : This beautifully rendered map of Herat dates from 1880, the final year of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80). The map depicts Herat’s impressive defenses and its roughly square plan. The southern and most imposing part of the citadel, “the Ark” (from the Persian arg, citadel) remains standing and is one of the major landmarks of Herat, as is the Friday Mosque (the Jumma Musjid in northeastern Herat). The defensive walls have long been replaced by spacious boulevards, however. Also noteworthy are the extensive vineyards that surround the city along with gardens and other cultivated land. The governor of Herat, Ayub Khan (1857–1914), was the son of the Afghan ruler Sher Ali Khan, who died in 1879 while seeking the assistance of the Russians against the British forces that had invaded Afghanistan. Sher Ali Khan was succeeded by another son, Mohammad Yaqub Khan (reigned February–October 1879), who adopted a conciliatory policy toward the British. Ayub Khan refused to recognize the conciliatory policies of his brother, and in August 1880 struck the British forces at Maiwand, near Kandahar (483 kilometers to the southeast of Herat, as the crow flies). After inflicting a serious defeat on the British forces, Ayub Khan proceeded to lay siege to Kandahar in an engagement known as the Battle of Kandahar, but was defeated in early September of the same year. At his defeat, Ayub Khan was forced to seek asylum in Persia. The Battle of Kandahar marked the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan war, and allowed the British to help consolidate the power of ʻAbd al-Rahman Khan (also called Abdur Rahman, reigned 1880–1901) as ruler of Afghanistan. The map was produced by the famous British mapmaker James Wyld the younger (1812−87). After studying at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, he joined his father’s mapmaking and publishing firm, which he eventually inherited. Wyld published numerous maps, many of which were intended to satisfy public interest in current events, such as the Anglo-Afghan wars, the California Gold Rush, and the Crimean War. Wyld’s maps were of high quality, and he was appointed geographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Language note English
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Herat (Afghanistan) – Maps.
856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7634_h4_w953_1880">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7634_h4_w953_1880</a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Map
Call number prefix azu_acku_g7634_h4_w953_1880
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 02/12/2017   G7634.H4.W953 1880 3ACKU000507540 02/12/2017 02/12/2017 Map The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.