Candahar, Afghanistan / (Record no. 41182)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency ACKU
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code a-af---
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number G7634.
Item number K25.
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 Candahar, Afghanistan /
Statement of responsibility, etc published by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen.
255 ## - CARTOGRAPHIC MATHEMATICAL DATA
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 [American Geographical Society Library],
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1880.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 map ;
Dimensions 31 x 23 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note “Shows gates and selected points of interest. Includes text”—upper right.
General note “Kandahar, Afghanistan : The city of Kandahar, or Candahar, was the site of the final battle of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80). Soldiers stationed at the British garrison at Kandahar met Afghan forces at nearby Maiwand, where on July 27, 1880, the two British and Indian brigades suffered a calamitous defeat. Retreating to Kandahar, the surviving British soldiers drove away the local population and took shelter behind the protective walls in preparation for the defense of city. Ayub Khan, the ruler of Herat and the victor at Maiwand, proceeded to lay siege to Kandahar in early August 1880. The Battle of Kandahar, which lasted until September 1, resulted in the defeat of the Afghan forces, thanks in part to fresh British reinforcements from Kabul. This map, by the famous British mapmaker James Wyld the younger (1812–87), dates from 1880 and includes text describing the city’s defenses. It is extremely detailed, showing individual groups of houses, the areas of the different trades, and markets. The fortified walls of the city, behind which the British forces took shelter during the battle, remained standing in parts until the early 20th century. The roughly rectangular layout of these fortifications can be traced in the modern city, where the walls have been replaced by streets and boulevards. Also noted on the map are the citadel (at the approximate site of the present-day governor’s and police compound of Kandahar) and the nearby tomb of Ahmad Shah Durrani (circa 1722–72), the founder of modern Afghanistan. Kandahar is an ancient and storied city that was frequently fought over by warring empires. Its recorded history goes back at least to the sixth century BC, when the city served as the administrative capital of the province of Arachosia in the Persian Empire”—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.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note English
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Kandahar (Afghanistan) – Maps.
Geographic name Continent Asia.
Geographic name Country Afghanistan.
Geographic name City Kandahar.
856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7634_k25_w953_1880">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_g7634_k25_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 Monograph
Call number prefix azu_acku_g7634_k25_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.K25.W953 1880 3ACKU000507672 02/12/2017 02/12/2017 Map The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.