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    Eritrea. Shows languages and religious minorities. Relief shown by gradient tints. "11366, Map Branch, CIA, 8-49." Includes tribal map of Eritrea. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Map Branch
    • Date: 1949-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Eritrea. "Base 802158 (R00938) 7-93." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1993-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Eritrea. "800770 (B00176) 9-86." Includes location map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1986-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Eritrea. Relief shown by shading. "Base 802159 (R00938) 7-93." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1993-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Eritrea. Shows administrative divisions. "57986 5-68." Includes location map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1968-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Carta topografica della Colonia Eritrea alla scala di 1:100,000
    Title in lower right margin of each sheet: Carta della Colonia Eritrea | Carta della Colonia Eritrea     "This set of 34 topographic maps was made in the early 20th century by the Italian armed forces. Italy, a relative latecomer to the scramble by the European powers for African colonies, took control of coastal areas of present-day Eritrea in 1885. The Treaty of Wichale (Uccialli) of 1889 concluded with Emperor Menelik of Ethiopia, gave Italy sovereignty over the territory that the Italians…
    • Contributor: Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy) - United States. Army Map Service
    • Date: 1909-01-01
    • Resource: Image - 36

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    Eritrea and Ethiopia. Relief shown by shading and spot heights. "803395AI (G01873) 8-09." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2009-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Eritrea 1:100,000 Relief shown by hachures, form lines, and spot heights. Geographic features in Italian. Title and legend in English. Some sheets by the 512 Army Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers. Reprinted from various editions originally published by the Istituto geografico militare, Italy. Index to adjoining sheets on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. Field Survey Coy., 514th - Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy)
    • Date: 1941-01-01
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    Eritrea and northern Ethiopia. Relief shown by shading. "Base 802678AI (R02659) 3-00." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2000-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Eritrea and northern Ethiopia. Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "Base 802625 (R02659) 2-99."
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1999-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Carta della colonia Eritrea Relief shown by hachures, form lines, and spot heights. Includes various editions of some sheets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy)
    • Date: 1909-01-01
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    Carta della colonia Eritrea Relief shown by hachures, form lines, and spot heights. Geographic features in Italian. Reprinted from various editions originally published by the Istituto geografico militare, Italy. Index to adjoining sheets on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. Field Survey Coy., 514th - Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy)
    • Date: 1941-01-01
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    Carta della Colonia Eritrea. Relief shown by shading, hachures, form lines, and spot heights. Title in upper left margin of each sheet. Geographic coverage complete in 36 sheets. Each sheet includes diagram of adjoining sheets. Some sheets include diagram indicating sources of compilation. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Each sheet embossed with the seal of the Istituto geografico militare in…
    • Contributor: Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy)
    • Date: 1889-01-01
    • Resource: Image - 34

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    Carta dimostrativa della Colonia Eritrea e delle regioni adiacenti alla scala di 1:250,000 "Italy, a relative latecomer to the scramble by the European powers for African colonies, took control of coastal areas of present-day Eritrea in 1885. The Treaty of Wichale (Uccialli) of 1889, concluded with Emperor Menelik of Ethiopia, gave Italy sovereignty over the territory that the Italians called Eritrea, a name derived from Mare Erythraeum, the Roman designation for the Red Sea. The Italian government…
    • Contributor: Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy)
    • Date: 1896-01-01
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    Middle East. "802122 (R00015) 4-93." This map reflects the new boundaries between Oman-Yemen, Saudi Arabia-Oman, and Eritrea Ethiopia. Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Includes location map with radial distances centered at Jerusalem. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1993-01-01
    • Resource: Copy 2 - Image
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    Kriegskarte von Agypten, Palastina und Arabien Covers eastern parts of Egypt, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Shows railroads, caravan routes, telegraph lines, roadblocks, ruins and a few Arabic topography terms given in German. Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Inset: [Nile Delta and Sinai]. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Freytag, Gustav - Freytag Und Berndt
    • Date: 1900-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Arabian 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
    • Resource: Image
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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: Petermann, A. (August Heinrich) - Hanemann, Fritz - Kuhn, Ernst - Stieler, Adolf - Kramer, A.
    • Date: 1875-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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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, W.H. (William Home) - Lizars, Daniel
    • Date: 1831-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Map 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
    • Resource: Image
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    Map of the Red Sea from Mocha to Jeddah.
    Carte de la Mer Rouge depuis Moka jusqu'à Gedda     This large and detailed nautical chart of the southern half of the Red Sea, with depth soundings, rhumb lines, and profiles of the coastal hills, dates from 1775. It includes three map insets with views of Shake Omare, Goofs, and Gedan near the important port of Jeddah. One of its distinctive features is its unusual alignment, with Moka (present-day Mocha, Yemen) shown at top…
    • Contributor: Après De Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis D
    • Date: 1775-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Middle East Countries : Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Saudi-Arabia "This map of the Middle East, originally published in August 1950 and revised in February 1955, was issued by the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, Air Photographic and Charting Service, Military Air Transportation Service (MATS), of the United States Air Force. In addition to Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, it shows the eastern parts of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium of…
    • Contributor: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.)
    • Date: 1955
    • Resource: Image
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    A Drawing (with a Western Perspective) of the East Indies from the Promontory of Good Hope to Cape Comorin.
    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: Image
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    A 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
    • Resource: Image
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    A New Map of Arabia: Divided into Its Several Regions and Districts.
    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: Niebuhr, Carsten - Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D
    • Date: 1794-01-01
    • Resource: Image