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MapOverview Map of Arabia. Based on C. Ritter's Geography Book III, West Asia, Parts XII-XIII.
bersichts-Karte Von Arabien : Zu C. Ritter's Erdkunde Buch III, West-Asien, Theil XII, XIII German geographer and cartographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818--99) is generally regarded as one of the most important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century. He was head of the Geographical Institute in Weimar between 1845 and 1852 and professor at the University of Berlin from 1852 until his death. Shown here is Kiepert's 1852 map of Arabia. As indicated in the title,...- Contributor: Kiepert, Heinrich - Mahlmann, Heinrich - Ritter, Carl
- Date: 1852-01-01
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MapEgypt, administrative divisions. "Base 801037 (B00159) 1-90." Includes index to governorates. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1990-01-01
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MapDescription of Egypt. Second Edition. Atlas of Egypt and Parts of Bordering Lands (Plates).
Description de l'Egypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. Atlas géographique When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, he brought with him an entourage of more than 160 scholars and scientists. Known as the French Commission on the Sciences and Arts of Egypt, these experts undertook an extensive survey of the country's archeology, topography, and natural history. A soldier who was part of the expedition found the famous Rosetta Stone, which the French linguist and...- Contributor: Jacotin, Pierre - Commission Des Sciences Et Arts D'egypte - Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
- Date: 1818-01-01
- Resource: - 59 pages
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Map[Asyūt Province cadastral maps] = [Muḥāfaẓat Asyūṭ]
Muḥāfaẓat Asyūṭ Shows plot numbers and boundaries. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Egypt. Maṣlaḥat Al-Misāḥah
- Date: 1905
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Map"The Daily Telegraph" War Map of Egypt and the Near East (Number 6). This general map of the Middle East was published in London 1918. It shows Anatolia, Egypt, and the Arabian Desert. Despite the title, it is not focused on the region as a theater of battle. The political borders shown on the map are vague, except for the eastern border of Egypt and the Iranian and Russian frontiers. The map was issued at the end...- Contributor: The Daily Telegraph - Gross, Alexander
- Date: 1918-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, Hormuz, Persia, from Sinda to the Indus River, Khambhat in India and Malabar, ...
Deliniantur in hac tabula, Orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani ; al. Maris Rubri ; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, suprà Sindam usque Fluminis Indi, Cambaiae Indiae & Malabaris, Insulae Ceylon, Choromandeliae, & Orixae, fluvii Gangis, & Regni Bengalae, situs item Sinuum, Insularum, Scopulorum, Pulvinorum, Vadorum, profunditatumque, dictis oris adjacentium, cum genuinis Singulorum locorum Nominibus, prout ab expertissimis navium Gubernatoribus Lusitanicis, indigetantur Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) was a Dutchman whose contributions to cartography were of great significance in breaking the Portuguese monopoly on trade and navigation in the late 16th century and in opening up southern Asia to the Dutch and later the English. As a young man, van Linschoten spent four years in Spain learning a trade. He then made his way to Lisbon,...- Contributor: Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van - Langren, Henricus F. Ab (Henricus Florentius)
- Date: 1596-01-01
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MapArabia: With the Adjacent Countries of Egypt and Nubia.
Arabia : with the adjacent countries of Egypt & Nubia William Home Lizars (1788-1859) was a Scottish engraver and painter and the son of the engraver Daniel Lizars. This map appears identical to the one engraved by Daniel, which appeared in The Edinburgh Geographical and Historical Atlas published by John Hamilton in 1831. It is plate 47 of the atlas. Relief is shown by hachures, and scale is indicated in British statute miles. The...- Contributor: Lizars, Daniel - Lizars, W.H. (William Home)
- Date: 1831-01-01
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MapMudīriyah al-Gharbīyah
x200f;مديرية الغربية | مديرية الغربية Shows plot numbers and boundaries. Sheets individually numbered and sub-titled, for example: Markaz Kifr al-Shaykh, Nāḥiyah Idrījah ; lawḥah numrah 1. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Sheets individually numbered and sub-titled, for example: مركز كفر الشيخ، ناحية إدريجة ؛ لوحة نمرة ١.- Contributor: Egypt. Wizārat Al-Ashghāl Al-ʻumūmīyah - Egypt. Maṣlaḥat Al-Misāḥah
- Date: 1897
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MapColton's Persia, Arabia, Et cetera.
Colton's Persia, Arabia, &c This map showing the Arabian Peninsula, Persia (present-day Iran), Afghanistan, Baluchistan (present-day Iran and Pakistan), and adjacent territories was copyrighted in 1855 by J.H. Colton & Company of New York. Coloring is used to indicate borders and certain provinces or settled areas. The map shows cities, mountains, and roads, and includes some notes on topographical features. The old Qatari city of al-Zabarah is shown....- Contributor: J.H. Colton & Company - Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth)
- Date: 1865-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages
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MapAtlas of Christian sites in Egypt Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes gazetteer.- Contributor: Institut Français D'archéologie Orientale Du Caire - Meinardus, Otto Friedrich August - Jamʻīyat Al-Āthār Al-Qibṭīyah (Egypt)
- Date: 1962
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MapEgyptian-Israeli disengagement lines, January 1974. 1-74. Scale ca. 1:400,000. "555141." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1974-01-01
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Map[Cairo region, north to Damietta, east to Suez. Scale ca. 1:250,000. Relief shown by contours. "502887 2-76." Shows railroads, principal roads, canals, and air fields. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1976-01-01
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MapEgypt 1:50,000. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Composite set of sheets with various sheet names, files alphabetically. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga37 2008-03-19- Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
- Date: 1926-01-01
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MapBacon's excelsior map of Egypt, the Nile basin and adjoining countries
Map of Egypt, the Nile basin and adjoining countries Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Suez Canal. Scale [1:800,000] Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: G.W. Bacon & Co
- Date: 1916
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MapArabia: According To Its Modern Divisions. "Arabia According to Its Modern Divisions" shows the Arabian Peninsula with the three-part division traditionally used in European sources into Arabia Petraea, Arabia Deserta, and Arabia Felix. Deserts, seaports, and the pearl beds along the coast are indicated. Qatar is shown as Catura. Four different distance scales--Arabian miles, Turkish miles, Persian parasangs, and British miles--are provided. Published in 1794, the map was compiled and...- Contributor: Dunn, Samuel, 1794
- Date: 1794-01-01
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MapUnited Arab Republic. "... 10-63." Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1963-01-01
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Map[al-Fayyūm Province cadastral maps] = [Muḥāfaẓat al-Fayyūm cadastral maps]
Title on some sheets: Muḥāfaẓat al-Fayyūm | Title on some sheets: Mudīriyah al-Fayyūm Shows plot numbers and boundaries. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. unk80006067 upgraded to RDA and LCCN 2009580338 replaced (ga37 2009-06-29) الفيوم: عنج -- بني صالح -- المندرة -- العدوة -- أبجيج -- دار الرماد -- دمشقين -- العجميين -- منشأات عبد الله -- السنباط -- هوارة عدلان -- هوارة المقطأ -- سنوفر -- سينرو -- دمو...- Contributor: Egypt. Maṣlaḥat Al-Misāḥah
- Date: 1905
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MapLibya-United Arab Republic boundary. "52761 12-65." "Source of data: Office of the Geographer, Department of State." Includes note and key map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Department of State. Office of the Geographer - United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1961-01-01
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MapNortheast Africa and Arabia Drawn to the Scale of 1:12,500,000.
Nordost-Afrika und Arabien im Maassstabe 1:12,500,000 This map of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula is from the sixth edition (1875) of Stieler's Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde (Stieler's portable atlas of all parts of the Earth), edited by August Heinrich Petermann (1822-78) and published by the firm of Justus Perthes. The map reflects the high quality of German cartography in the latter part of the 19th century and...- Contributor: Hanemann, Fritz - Kuhn, Ernst - Petermann, A. (August Heinrich) - Stieler, Adolf - Kramer, A.
- Date: 1875-01-01
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MapA New Map of Arabia, Including Egypt, Abyssinia, the Red Sea, from the Latest Authorities.
A New Map of Arabia, Including Egypt, Abyssinia, the Red Sea &c., &c., from the Latest Authorities John Cary (circa 1754-1835) was a leading London engraver, map-, chart- and print-seller, and globe maker, active between 1787 and 1834. This map of 1804 shows the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring parts of Africa and the Middle East. Important caravan routes are marked, including the "route of the grand caravan of Sudan from the Niger to Cairo," "route of the caravan from Batsora [Basra]...- Contributor: Cary, John
- Date: 1804-01-01
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MapSinai. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "Map. no. 4."- Contributor: Great Britain. War Office
- Date: 1937-01-01
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MapGeneral map of Cairo. Relief shown by contours. Inset: Northern continuation showing Heliopolis and Matarîya line. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes "Abridged index."- Contributor: Egypt. Maṣlaḥat Al-Misāḥah
- Date: 1920-01-01
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MapArabian Gulf or Red Sea.
Golfe Arabique ou Mer Rouge This map, "Golfe Arabique ou Mer Rouge" (Arabian Gulf or Red Sea), by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville was published in Paris in 1765. It is a very large copperplate engraved map of the Red Sea showing shorelines, islands, cities and settlements, roads, ports and anchorages, and shoals and sandbanks from Suez to the southern tip of Yemen. Four insets show the port of Giddah...- Contributor: Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D
- Date: 1765-01-01
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MapMap of Arabia, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea; Including Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia.
Carte de l'Arabie, du Golfe Persique, et de la Mer Rouge, avec l'Egypte, la Nubie et l'Abissinie This map of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding areas was most likely created by the French cartographer and hydrologist Rigobert Bonne (1727-94). It is probably a proof copy of the map of the same title published in his Atlas des toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre (Atlas of all known land surfaces of the globe). The Arabian Peninsula is the main focus of...- Contributor: Bonne, Rigobert
- Date: 1780-01-01
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MapEgypt, Sinai Peninsula. "Base 801166 (B00570) 6-88." Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1988-01-01