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    Map of the Arabian Coast, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf.
    Carte de la Coste d'Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse
    This map of the coastlines of the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent regions is by the French hydrographer and cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-72). Bellin was attached to the French Marine Office for more than 50 years and specialized in producing maritime maps. He also made most of the maps for Histoire générale des voyages: ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer...
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas - La Harpe, Jean-François De
    • Date: 1745-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sixth Map of Asia.
    Tabula VI Asiae
    Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100--circa 170), known as Ptolemy, was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who lived and worked in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. In his Geography, Ptolemy gathered all the geographic knowledge possessed by the Greco-Roman world. He invented the geographic coordinate system and devised a method of using a grid or graticule made up of lines of latitude and...
    • Contributor: Pirckheimer, Willibald - Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Regiomontanus, Joannes
    • Date: 1525-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Central and southern Iraq. Relief shown by shading. "DI Cartography Center/MPG 803080AI (C00503) 7-04." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes inset of Baghdad and area comparison map.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cartography Center
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    Travel Routes of Northern Arabia. Shown here is a rough map of the Bedouin grazing routes in the Arabian Desert from Palmyra, Syria, in the north to Hijaz (in present-day Saudi Arabia) in the south. The map was published by the Société de Géographie (Geographical Society) of France in 1884. It provides little precise topographic detail, but significant features such as "basalt plateau" or "year-round water flow" are noted....
    • Contributor: Huber, Charles - Geographical Society (France) - Hansen, Jules
    • Date: 1884-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq. "Base 802668AI (R00667) 12-99." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1999-01-01
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    Map of the Coast of Arabia, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
    Carte de la Coste d'Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse
    This 1740 map is by the French cartographer and hydrographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-72). It was published by order of Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count de Maurepas (1701-81), secretary of state under King Louis XV. The map focuses exclusively on the coastlines, and provides no detail about the interior of the Arabian Peninsula. It shows pearl banks along the coast from Bahrain to Julfar. Qatar is noted...
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas - Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux
    • Date: 1740-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Baghdad. "763104AI (C00599) 4-03." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Iraq. "Base 803335AI (C00459) 1-08." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2008-01-01
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    A New Map of Arabia: Divided into Its Several Regions and Dis...
    A New Map of Arabia: Divided into its several regions and districts
    This map of Arabia, published in London in 1794, is an English translation of a map by the French cartographer and geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782). Appointed the first geographer to the king of France in 1773, d'Anville was one of the most important mapmakers of the 18th century, known for the accuracy and scientific quality of his maps. The work presented here is...
    • Contributor: Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D - Niebuhr, Carsten
    • Date: 1794-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sixth Map of Asia, Including Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the ...
    Tab. VI : Asiæ, Arabiam felicem, Carmaniam ac sinum Persicum
    Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100--circa 170), known as Ptolemy, was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who lived and worked in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. In his Geography, Ptolemy gathered all the geographic knowledge possessed by the Greco-Roman world. He invented the geographic coordinate system and devised a method of using a grid or graticule made up of lines of latitude and...
    • Contributor: Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Mercator, Gerhard
    • Date: 1578-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq. Relief shown by shading. "Base 802485 (R00667) 5-96." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1996-01-01
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    Al Basrah, Iraq
    Basrah | Series K942
    Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes glossary and location map.
    • Contributor: United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Central and southern Iraq. Relief shown by shading. "803080AI (C00503) 7-04." Includes inset of Baghdad and area comparison map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    Transportation corridors into Iraq. "725609 (R00519) 7-92." Shows Red Sea Corridor, Mediterranean and Turkish Corridor, selected ports, and customs posts, Iraq closed border, and major roads in Middle East. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Accompanied by: Iraq : a map folio. 2 p. : 6 maps ; 29 cm. Copy 1. Two other copies cataloged as atlas, filed at 93-676132,...
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1992-01-01
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    A Chart of the Coast of Arabia, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf,... This English map is a reprinting, with slight changes, of an earlier French map published in 1740 by order of Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count de Maurepas (1701-81), secretary of state under King Louis XV. The map was drawn from an earlier chart of the Eastern Ocean, "improv'd from particular surveys and regulated by astronomical observations." This English edition of the de Maurepas map has a...
    • Contributor: Child, G.
    • Date: 1740-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Karkuk (Kirkuk), Iraq
    Kirkuk | Series K942
    Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes glossary, regional map, and location map.
    • Contributor: United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Central and southern Iraq. "803079AI (C00503) 7-04." Includes inset of Baghdad and area comparison map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    Arabia. This mid-19th-century British map shows the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring parts of Africa, including Egypt, the Sudan, and Abyssinia. The traditional Greek and Roman division of Arabia into the three parts of Arabia Petraea, Arabia Deserta, and Arabia Felix is used. Qatar is shown as Catura. Also indicated are Oman, Bahrain, and the territories of Mecca and Medina. The map emphasizes the vast, empty...
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    Arabia. This map of 1616, with Latin place names, is a reprint of a work by Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), a Flemish cartographer and engraver who settled in Amsterdam in about 1593 and established a business that produced globes and the first large maps of the world. The place names on the map are unclear. "Coromanis" is shown on many older maps as located in present-day...
    • Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1616-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Map of the Turkish Empire.
    Turcici Imperii Imago
    This map shows the Ottoman Empire as it appeared in the early 17th century. It details Ottoman territories in Asia, Africa, and Europe, and includes Persia, Transcaucasia, Ethiopia, and other surrounding lands. Topographic features, place-names, and populations are definitively marked, although the nomenclature of the time differs markedly from that used today. The Red Sea is termed the Sea of Mecca, for example, and...
    • Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1600-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages
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    Approximate Distribution of the Rites or Schools of Law and R...
    Arabia distribuzione approssimativa dei riti o scuole giuridiche e delle sette religiose Musulmane
    This map illustrates the varieties of religious affiliation in the Muslim populations of the Middle East. It shows the locations of adherents to the four schools of Sunni jurisprudence and the distribution of Shia populations. Where it is impossible to portray this diversity visually, the sheet provides a few paragraphs of further explanation, such as on the Senussi order in Medina, the Maliki school...
    • Contributor: Nollini, Carlo Alfonso - Dardano, A. (Achille)
    • Date: 1918-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Map of the Arabian Peninsula. This map is from a collection of 65 projectable lantern slides relating to the Arab Revolt of 1916-18, an important theater of operations during World War I. By supporting the revolt against Ottoman Rule, the British sought to weaken the Ottoman Empire, which was aligned with Germany and Austria-Hungary. For their part, the Arabs hoped to secure independence and create a unified empire embracing...
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    Arabia: 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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Arabia. John Tallis and Company was a British mapmaking and publishing firm, founded by John Tallis (1817--76), which was active in London circa 1835-60. Tallis maps were known for their accurate information with numerous place-names and geographical details, as well as for the use of shaded areas to indicate topographical features. They are identifiable by the scrolling on the borders and the finely-drawn scenes inscribed...
    • Contributor: Warren, H. - Rapkin, John - Rogers, John
    • Date: 1850-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq's petroleum and gas infrastructure.
    Iraq petroleum system
    Shows oil and gas fields and pipelines, exploration blocks, crude processing plants, pump stations, refineries, and tanker terminals. Relief shown by shading. Includes ancillary map of "Distribution of Iraq's main ethnoreligious groups." Tables and charts: Producing oilfields -- Types of Iraqi oil -- Crude oil production and projections -- Oil ministry production goals -- Crude oil production and exports, 1979-2002 -- Oil export capacity...
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Iraq. "DI Cartography Center/MPG 802949AI (C00519) 1-03." Includes area comparison map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cartography Center
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Iraq. "9-67" Shows international boundaries, administrative divisions, populated places, road network, pipelines, and oil pumping stations. "Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative." LC copy has label on verso: "No. 945538200" Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1967-01-01
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    [Map showing neutral zones between Saudi Arabia and Iraq and ... "721438 (B01188) 3-91." Depths shown by gradient tints. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DRM
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1991-01-01
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    Arabia: 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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Map to illustrate agreements in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopot... Shows the partition in three zones, (A) : Independent Arab State in the French sphere -- (B) Independent Arab state in the British sphere -- (C) Italian sphere influence. Shows in colors: International sphere, French sphere, British sphere, Italian sphere, Russian sphere, international frontiers, and boundary of Mandated Palestine. "Sykes-Picot Agreement", officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement was negotiated between November 1915 and...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Research Department
    • Date: 1964-01-01
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    Map of the Persian Gulf.
    Carte Du Golphe Persique
    This map of the Persian Gulf is by the French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-72). Qatar is shown as Catura. Cities on both the Arabian and Persian sides of the gulf are indicated, and the map shows a river emptying into the gulf at the port of Julfar (present-day Ra's al-Khaymah, United Arab Emirates). The scale is in common leagues, and there are no latitudinal...
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas
    • Date: 1763-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Arabia. This 1662 Latin map of Arabia is a copy of an earlier map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), the founder of the Blaeu cartographic firm. It is one of the first maps to show internal features of the Arabian Peninsula. Mountains are depicted, oases denoted by trees, and points used to indicate pearl deposits in the Arabian Gulf. The map uses dotted lines to...
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1622-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    The Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the ...
    Il Bacino orientale del mediterraneo il mar rosso ed il golfo persico
    This undated Italian map of the Middle East was published by the firm G.B. Paravia of Turin, Italy. It is a political map marking the boundaries of states and empires at the date of printing, probably at the very end of the 19th century. A clue to dating is the designation of Somalia Italiana (Italian Somalia). A series of Italian protectorates was established in...
    • Contributor: Salussolia - Paravia (Firm)
    • Date: 1890-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Western Asia.
    Asie occidentale
    This map of western Asia dating from 1809 is by Pierre M. Lapie (1779-1850). It covers the region between Novgorod and Arkhangelsk, Russia in the northwest and the mouth of the Indus River in the southeast. The southern coast of the Arabian (Persian) Gulf appears as an almost smooth gentle curve, broken only by the mouth of large river called Aftan (present-day Wadi al-Sahba,...
    • Contributor: Lapie, M. (Pierre) - Diot, Mrs - Chamouin, Jean Baptiste Marie, 1768 - Prudhomme, Active 18th Century-19th Century - Malte-Brun, Conrad - Giraldon-Bovinet, Flourished
    • Date: 1809-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq. "757323AI (R02198) 10-01." Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2001-01-01
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    A Current and Correct Depiction of Arabia Felix, Arabia Petra...
    Arabie Felicis, Petraeae et Desertae nova et accurata delineatio
    This map from 1658 was published by Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664), or Jan Jansson. Jansson was born in Arnhem, the son of Jan Jansson the Elder, a publisher and bookseller. Jansson's maps are similar to those of Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), the founder of the Blaeu cartographic firm, and Jansson is sometimes accused of copying from his rival, but many of his maps predate those...
    • Contributor: Jansson, Jan
    • Date: 1658-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    New and Accurate Map of Arabia, Asian Turkey, etc..
    Nieuwe en naukeurige kaart van Arabien Asiatisch Turkyen enz
    Emanuel Bowen (circa 1694-1767) enjoyed great renown as a cartographer, engraver, and publisher of maps. His prolific output and ability was recognized to such an extent that he was official engraver both to King George II of Great Britain and to King Louis XV of France. The map presented here was created and first engraved by Bowen, and it appeared in several of his...
    • Contributor: Jagen, Jan Van - Bowen, Emanuel - Bachiene, Willem Albert
    • Date: 1769-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Central and southern Iraq. "DI Cartography Center/MPG 802970AI (C00503) 2-03." Includes inset of Baghdad and area comparison map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cartography Center
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    A New Map of Arabia, Including Egypt, Abyssinia, the Red Sea,...
    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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Franklin's CIA maps of the Middle East : Kuwait, Bahrain, Qat... Relief shown by spot heights. Panel title. Includes notes, coverage map, bar code, and blank areas. At foot of Iraq map: 503930 11-78 (544174). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency - Franklin Maps (Firm)
    • Date: 1991-01-01
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    Al Mawsil (Mosul), Iraq
    Mosul | Series K942
    "Date: April 2003." "Datum: WGS 84." "Printed by NIMA 4/03." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes glossary and location map.
    • Contributor: United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Arabia, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. This map of the Arabian Peninsula shows international borders, caravan routes, and important cities and towns. British possessions, including the port of Aden and the island of Socotra (ʻAdan and Suquṭrā, both part of present-day Yemen), are indicated by the pink coloring. The old Qatari cities of El Bedaa and Zabara (present-day Al Bida and Al Zabara) are shown. The map appeared as plate...
    • Contributor: Blackie, W. G. (Walter Graham) - Weller, Edward, 1884
    • Date: 1870-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Washington Post Persian Gulf War map collection Collection of 40 newspaper clippings that contain maps drawn by David Cook and others for the Washington Post in 1991 that illustrate the Persian Gulf War.
    • Contributor: Cook, David W.
    • Date: 1991
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    The Kurdish lands. "723890 (E00446) 1-92." Relief shown by shading. Block diagram shows Kurdish inhabited areas in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. Accompanied by: Iraq : a map folio. 2 p. : 6 maps ; 29 cm. Filed with map at 93-682573, G7611.P1 1992 .U5 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes location map, graphs showing agriculture and rainfall, col. ill.,...
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1992-01-01
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    Iraq, situation map. Special insert from Soldiers, the official U.S. Army magazine, January 2004, v. 59, no. 1. "Map source: Map Resources." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes map of the Middle East and col. ill. World map on verso.
    • Contributor: United States. Army
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    Al Mawsil (Mosul), Iraq
    Mosul | Series K942
    Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes glossary and location map.
    • Contributor: United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Iraq country profile. Relief shown by shading. "DI Cartography Center/MPG 761580AI 1-03." "DI Cartography and Design Centers/MPG 387230AI 1-03." "Background image composed of Landsat TM (bands 1, 2, 3), and DTED level 1." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, comparative area map, location map, and historical timeline. Ancillary maps: Oil infrastructure -- Distribution of ethnoreligious groups and major...
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Design Center - United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cartography Center
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Arabia. This 1616 map is a reprint of a map originally published in 1598 by Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), a Flemish cartographer and engraver who settled in Amsterdam in about 1593 and established a business that produced globes and the first large maps of the world. The map covers the territory from west of the Gulf of Suez to the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula,...
    • Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
    • Date: 1598-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Map Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan...
    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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq. "Base 803068AI (C00459) 9-04." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    Southeastern Iraq. "725993 8-92." Satellite image map. Accompanied by: Iraq : a map folio. 2 p. : 6 maps ; 29 cm. Filed with map at 93-682573, G7611.P1 1992 .U5 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes location map. Copy 1. Two additional copies cataloged as atlas, filed at 93-676132, G2250.U55 1992
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1992-01-01
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    Iraq. "803077AI (C00519) 6-04." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes area comparison map.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    Asia: South Western Sheet. This map showing the Arabian Peninsula, Persia (present-day Iran), Afghanistan, and Baluchistan (present-day Iran and Pakistan) was copyrighted in 1858 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. The map...
    • Contributor: J.H. Colton & Company - Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth)
    • Date: 1858-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq. "Base 801730 (B01274) 4-91." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1991-01-01
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    Question de la frontière entre la Turquie et l'Irak : rapport... Covers northern Iraq. French and English. Coverage complete in 11 maps according to title sheet. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. ARP
    • Contributor: Királyi Magyar Térképészeti Intézet
    • Date: 1924-01-01
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    Baghdad "Suitable for reference purposes only." Includes location map. "NIMA ref. no. K942SBAGHDAD." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Northeast 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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Colton'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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    Map of Ancient Arabia.
    Arabiae Veteris Typus
    This map of the Arabian Peninsula, published in 1720, shows Arabia Felix, Arabia Deserta, and Arabia Petraea. Other regions included are Palestine, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, Persia, Aegyptus, and Aethiopia. A large number of towns are shown. The title cartouche includes nine vignette coins. The tribal and town names on the map are those used by Ptolemy. Some are used more than once, with variations. Thus...
    • Contributor: Weigel, Christoph
    • Date: 1720-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq's petroleum and gas infrastructure.
    Iraq petroleum system
    Shows oil and gas fields and pipelines, exploration blocks, crude processing plants, pump stations, refineries, and tanker terminals. Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ancillary map of "Distribution of Iraq's main ethnoreligious groups." Tables and charts: Producing oilfields -- Types of Iraqi oil -- Crude oil production and projections -- Oil ministry...
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2002-01-01
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    ECAI Iraq
    ECAI Iraq home page | Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Iraq
    ECAI Iraq is a temporal-spatial portal into existing digital resources about history, cultural sites, archaeological excavations, and heritage preservation initiatives. Users can access these information sources using interactive, time-enabled thematic maps. The data, that can be displayed for the Iraqi and Mesopotamian material culture, is found on hundreds of web sites around the world. ECAI Iraq catalogs this material in a dynamic database and...
    • Contributor: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
    • Date: 2003
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    Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia border areas. Map in 2 parts. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Turkish Empire.
    Tvrcicvm imperivm
    This detailed map of the Turkish Empire at the height of its powers was produced in Amsterdam by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) in about 1635, when the Ottoman territories included the Balkans, Anatolia, the Levant, and parts of Hungary, Ukraine, North Africa and Arabia. The map centers on the eastern Mediterranean (marked Mare Syriacum, or Syrian Sea) and northern Arabia, and it extends from...
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Joan - Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
    • Date: 1635-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages
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    Iraq summary map Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, location map, and comparative area map. Ancillary maps: Land use -- Economic activity -- Population density -- Distribution of religious and ethnic groups. "802147 (R00943) 3-94."
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1994-01-01
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    Lands of the Emperor of the Turks or the Ottoman Sultan in As...
    Estats de l'empire du Grand Seigneur des Turqs ou Sultan des Ottomans en Asie, en Afrique, et en Europe
    This map shows the Ottoman Empire as it was conceived in Europe in the last quarter of the 17th century. It is a reprint, dated 1679, of an earlier edition possibly included in a series of world atlases published by Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) in the middle of the century. The map shows geological features, such as rivers, deserts, and mountain ranges. Cities and towns...
    • Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1679-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq country profile. Relief shown by shading. "390460AI 7-03." "764225AI 7-03." "Background image composed of Landsat TM (bands 1, 2, 3), and DTED level 1." Includes text, comparative area map, location map, and historical timeline. Ancillary maps: Oil infrastructure -- Distribution of ethnoreligious groups and major tribes -- Population density -- Land use -- Kurdish areas of northern Iraq -- Physical features. Available also through the Library...
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cartography Center
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Iraq. Also shows major ports, airfields, and historic sites. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes comparative area map. "802146 (R00943) 3-94."
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1994-01-01
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    Iraq. "Base 801731 (B01274) 4-91." Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1991-01-01
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    Sixth Map of Asia.
    Sexta Asiae tabula
    Several editions of Ptolemy's Geographia (Geography), translated into Latin from the original Greek, were published in Europe in the 15th century. This map is from the 1478 edition, which was published in Rome. Ptolemaic atlases included 12 maps of Asia. The "Sixth Map of Asia" covered the Arabian Peninsula. The outlines of this map are crude, but many geographic features, including the Red Sea,...
    • Contributor: Ptolemy, 2nd Century
    • Date: 1478-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Overview Map of Arabia. Based on C. Ritter's Geography Book I...
    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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq Relief shown by shading. "Suitable for reference purposes only." "Ellipsoid & datum: WGS 84." "NIMA ref. no. K341SIRAQREFGRA." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Iraq. Relief shown by shading. "Base 803336AI (C00459) 1-08. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2008-01-01
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    Iraq ethnic distribution (u). "765594AI (C00459) 1-04." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    Iraq : a map folio Cover title. "August 1992"--P. 2 of cover. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes timeline of 20th century events in Iraq. Three folded col. maps in pocket: Southeastern Iraq [remote sensing image map]; The Kurdish lands; Transportation corridors into Iraq. "CPAS 92-10004"--P. 2 of cover. Another copy treated as three single maps with accompanying text: 93-682573 (G7611.P1...
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1992-01-01
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    Central and southern Iraq. Relief shown by shading. "DI Cartography Center/MPG 802971AI (C00503) 2-03." Includes inset of Baghdad and area comparison map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cartography Center
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and...
    Asiae Tabula VI: Arabiam Felicem, Carmaniam Ac Sinum Persicum
    This map from Ptolemy's Geographia was published in 1578 and reprinted on many occasions between 1584 and 1704. It is much more finely engraved than maps in previous Ptolemy editions. The map mentions several places in present-day Qatar (Abucei, Leaniti, Themi, Asateni, and Aegei). Names added to this edition of the map include Mesmites Sinus, Idicar, and a second Idicar, located in present-day Kuwait....
    • Contributor: Ptolemy, 2nd Century
    • Date: 1578-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Arabia Agreeable to Modern History. Arabia Agreeable to Modern History is a hand-colored engraved map by Herman Moll (died 1732) first published in 1709 in Atlas Manuale - A New Set of Maps of All Parts of the Earth, the earliest of Moll's two small-format world atlases, which were popular for their relatively low cost and soon were followed by other editions. Moll was born in Bremen and moved...
    • Contributor: Moll, Herman, 1732
    • Date: 1715-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Tikrit, Iraq
    Series K942
    Ancillary maps: Al Sahra Airport -- Tikrit South Airport -- Tikrit East Airport. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes glossary and location map.
    • Contributor: United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Colton's Persia, Arabia, Et cetera.
    Persia, Arabia &c
    This map showing the Arabian Peninsula, Persia (present-day Iran), Afghanistan, and Baluchistan (present-day Iran and Pakistan) was published in 1855 by the G.W. and C.B. Colton and 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 Zabara...
    • Contributor: J.H. Colton & Company - Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth)
    • Date: 1855-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages
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    Iraq. Relief shown by shading. "DI Cartography Center/MPG 802950AI (C00519) 1-03." Includes area comparison map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cartography Center
    • Date: 2003-01-01
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    Central and southern Iraq. "DI Cartography Center/MPG 803079AI (C00503) 7-04." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes inset of Baghdad and area comparison map.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cartography Center
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    The archaeological map of Iraq. Scale 1:1,500,000. Includes list giving old and modern names and table of "Chronological periods." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
    • Contributor: Iraq. Mudīrīyat Al-Āthār Al-Qadīmah Al-ʻāmmah
    • Date: 1967-01-01
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    Newest Map of Arabia.
    Neueste Karte Von Arabien
    This color map in German appeared as plate 80 in Grosser Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde (Large portable atlas of all parts of the world), published by the Bibliographic Institute of Joseph Meyer (1796-1856). The map shows the Arabian Peninsula as well as neighboring parts of Africa, including Egypt, present-day Sudan, and Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia). Colored lines are used to demarcate kingdoms and...
    • Contributor: Meyer, Joseph - Radefeld, Carl Christian Franz
    • Date: 1845-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    "The Daily Telegraph" War Map of Egypt and the Near East (Num... 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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    The Coast of Arabia the Red Sea, and Persian Sea of Bassora P...
    De Kusten van Arabie het Roode Meer,en Persie Zee van Bassora voor by 't Nau van Ormus Tot aan den Indus, Guzaratte en Kaap Comorin
    This 1707 map of the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent regions is the work of Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), a Dutch publisher and bookseller based in Leiden who specialized in reissuing maps acquired from earlier mapmakers. The map appears to be based on an earlier Portuguese work, and uses a mix of Dutch, Latin, and Portuguese for titles and place names. The map covers...
    • Contributor: Aa, Pieter Van Der
    • Date: 1707-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Iraq. "Base 802484 (R00667) 5-96." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1995-01-01
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    Iraq. Relief shown by shading. "Base 803069AI (C00459) 9-04." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    Iraq. Relief shown by shading. "803078AI (C00519) 6-04." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes area comparison map.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2004-01-01
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    Northern Arabia. This highly detailed map was produced by the British War Office for the Royal Geographical Society with the permission of the controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office in March 1922. It shows the physical features of northern Arabia, i.e., the steppe from Arabian Hasa (often seen as Ahsa) in the southeast to Jerusalem in the northwest. Physical features include altitude contours, lakes, rivers, and...
    • Contributor: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section - Carruthers, Douglas
    • Date: 1922-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Arabia. This map of the Arabian Peninsula appeared in the 1856 edition of the world atlas that was first published by James Wyld (1790-1836) in 1824 and in successive editions by his son, James Wyld the younger (1812-87). Political divisions are indicated by colored lines and the scale is in English miles. Cities, towns, wells, and caravan routes to Mecca are shown. An annotation on...
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    Iraq. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "504065 3-79 (544444)."
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1979-01-01
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    A Drawing (with a Western Perspective) of the East Indies fro...
    Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium a Promontorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin
    This portolan map by the Dutch engraver, publisher, and map seller Frederick de Wit (1629 or 1630-1706) shows the Indian Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope to the west coast of India (Malabar). The map was first published in 1675 and was reprinted in 1715. It is oriented with east at the top. Kishm is placed in the present-day United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
    • Date: 1675-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    New Persia, Armenia, Anatolia and Arabia.
    Nova Persiæ, Armeniæ, Natoliæ, et Arabiæ
    This highly decorative map of the Middle East is by the Dutch engraver, publisher, and map seller Frederick de Wit (1629 or 1630-1706). It was published in Amsterdam in about 1666. The map covers the regions from present-day Turkey and Egypt to Afghanistan and the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea, the Nile River, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Gulf of Aden, Armenia, the Caspian Sea,...
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1666-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Baghdad "Suitable for reference purposes only." "Map date: 10 February 2006." Printed by NGA 03-06. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes location map. NGA ref. no. K942SBAGHDAD.
    • Contributor: United States. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2006-01-01