Alexandri magni imperium et expeditio per Europam, per Africam et potissimum per Asiam / contributor Moulart-Sanson, Pierre, -1730.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: [Paris] : Lutetiae Parisiorum, [1712].Description: 1 map ; 41 x 59 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - G7420. M685 1712
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Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | G7420.M685 1712 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. | 3ACKU000507375 |
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| G7420.M376 1885 A map of the countries between Constantinople and Calcutta including Turkey in Asia, Persia, Afghanistan & Turkestan / | G7420.M533 1920 [Middle East] / | G7420.M533 1955 Middle East countries : | G7420.M685 1712 Alexandri magni imperium et expeditio per Europam, per Africam et potissimum per Asiam / | G7420.N437 1952 The Near East / | G7420.P437 1852 Persia Arabia &c. / | G7420.P746 1751 Premiere partie de la carte d'Asie : |
“Description Relief shown pictorially. Includes list of numbered notes and inset showing continets of Africa, Europe, and Asia. LC copies annotated in inks to show boundaries and mounted on linen. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image”.
“The Empire of Alexander the Great and his Campaigns in Europe, Africa, and Particularly in Asia : This map, published in Paris in 1712, shows the expeditions and empire of Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The circular inset at the top shows the three continents. The numbered notes in the lower right refer to Alexander’s campaign on the banks of the Hyphasis River (now known as the Beas River) in northern India, which is shown on the far-right side of the map. The long note in Latin in the upper right-hand corner summarizes Alexander’s career and conquests, which are explained with reference to Biblical sources, in particular the prophecies in the Book of Daniel, and the Antiquitates Judaicae (The Jewish antiquities) by the first-century historian Flavius Josephus. Borders are annotated in colored ink, and three distance scales are given: 1,000 paces (also known as Roman miles), Greek stadia (one stadia is circa 185−225 meters), and Persian parasangs (a measure of length variously given as between 3.9 and 5.3 kilometers). The map is by Pierre Moulart-Sanson (died 1730), a member of the prominent family of cartographers founded by Nicolas Sanson (1600−67)”—copied from website.
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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