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MapMuslim distribution : [Islamic countries]. Shows Sunni and Shia sect regions. "735021 (R01698) 6-95." Includes note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1995
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MapMuslim distribution : [Islamic countries]. Shows Sunni and Shia sect regions. "758768AI (R01698) 2-02." Includes note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 2002
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MapIran, ethnic distribution (U).
Government structure of the Islamic Republic Includes text, col. ill., graphs, and charts. In lower right corner of map: 767781AI (C00260) 9-04. In lower right corner of sheet: 396206IA 8-04. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 2004
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MapMajor Muslim ethnic groups in Armenia, Iran, and the Islamic Commonwealth states. "5-92." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes. "725015 (R00108)."- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1992
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MapMajor ethnic groups in predominantly Muslim areas. "801309 (B00763) 2-89." Shows major ethnic groups and subgroups in northern Africa and Middle East. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1989
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MapApproximate Distribution of the Rites or Schools of Law and Religious Sects of Islam in Arabia.
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
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MapCarte de l'Algérie : indiquant la situation, l' importance numerique et la marche, des orders religieux Musulmans Includes inset of "Carte d'ensemble indiquant la marche générale des Qadrya, Chadelya Tidjanya et Senoussya" and table of "Renseignements historiques & statistiques sur la situation générale de l'Islam en Algérie." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Rinn, Louis - Bissuel, H. (Henri)
- Date: 1884
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MapNew Map of Persia.
Nieuwe kaart van tryk van Persie Isaak Tirion (circa 1705-circa 1769) was born in Utrecht and later became a publisher and bookseller with a business on the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam. He published a number of important books, atlases, and charts and served on the board of the guild of booksellers. This map appeared in Tirion's Nieuwe en Beknopte Hand-Atlas, bestaande in eene Verzameling van eenige der algemeenste en nodigste Landkaarten...- Contributor: Tirion, Isaak, 1705 1769
- Date: 1744
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MapAfghanistan and Its Neighboring Countries.
Afghanistan und seine Nachbarländer This map of Afghanistan and its neighbors was printed in multiple editions by the publishing house of Carl Flemming in Glogau, Germany (present-day Głogów, Poland). The areas covered by the map were the site of an intense rivalry between Great Britain and Imperial Russia during the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The borders of Afghanistan changed repeatedly during the latter part...- Contributor: Carl Flemming (Firm) - Handtke, F. (Friedrich)
- Date: 1914
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MapIran. Eastern Half Including Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and the Uzbek Khanate on the Oxus.
Iran. Östliche halfte enthaltend Afghanistan, Balutschistan, und die Özbeghischen Khanate am Oxus This 1878 map depicts Afghanistan as well as a narrow band of eastern Persia and adjoining regions. The cartographer, Heinrich Kiepert (1818-99), was a German geographer, who published several atlases of the ancient world during his career. The title, Iran. Östliche halfte enthaltend Afghanistan, Balutschistan, und die Özbeghischen Khanate am Oxus (Iran. Eastern Half Including Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and the Uzbek Khanate on the Oxus),...- Contributor: Kiepert, Heinrich - Burchard, Gebrueder - Greve, W.
- Date: 1878
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MapWyld's Military Staff Map of Central Asia and Afghanistan. This impressively detailed map of Central Asia, dated 1879, was published during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878--80) by the British mapmaker James Wyld the younger (1812--87). The map shows the vast domains acquired by the Russian Empire in Central Asia (present-day Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan) in the late 19th century, as well as Afghanistan, eastern Persia, and parts of Baluchistan (present-day Pakistan), India,...- Contributor: Wyld, James
- Date: 1879
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MapSixth Map of Asia.
Tabvla Sexta De Asia This map of the Roman province of Asia is from Ptolemy's Geographia, which was published in 1482 in an edition by Francesco Berlinghieri. The depiction of Arabia is regarded as the basis for future representations of the peninsula, which changed as new and more accurate geographic information reached Europe. The Qatar Peninsula is labeled Ichthiophagi--literally, "fish eaters." It is accurately located on the southern...- Contributor: Ptolemy, 2nd Century - Berlinghieri, Francesco
- Date: 1482
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MapPersia, or the Safavid Kingdom.
Persia sive Sophorum Regnum This decorative and detailed map of Persia is by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), a Dutch cartographer, globe maker, and publisher. Blaeu trained with the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and began producing maps and charts in the early years of the 17th century. In 1633 he became the official cartographer for the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC--Dutch East India Company). Blaeu is best known for his...- Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1635
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MapArabia 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
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MapFortress of Ormuz: Plans of Plazas and Forts of Portuguese Possessions in Asia and Africa.
Fortaleza de Ormuz This drawing shows the Portuguese fort at Ormuz, located on the Persian Gulf island of Hormuz. In its heyday, Ormuz was one of the most important ports in the Middle East, controlling trading routes between India and East Africa. Before coming under Portuguese control in the early 1500s, Ormuz was a city-state that flourished as an independent kingdom. Its prime location along trade routes...- Date: 1600
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MapMap 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
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MapMap of Arabia and the Persian Gulf. This map of the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf emphasizes the physical terrain and transportation routes as surveyed in 1916 by the Survey of India, the cartographic branch of the British government of India. It was prepared at the beginning of the British campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The map provided a general view of the Middle East...- Contributor: Burrard, Sidney Gerald, Sir - Survey of India
- Date: 1917
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MapMap of the Arabian Gulf from Basra to Cape Raʼs al-Hadd.
Carte du Golfe Persique: depuis Bassora jusqu'au Cap Rasalgate This French chart of the Arabian Gulf dating from 1775 shows the coasts of the present-day countries of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the coast of northern Oman, and in the northwest, coastal parts of Kuwait, Iran, and Iraq. An inset chart shows the islands of Karak and Korgo and Bundereek Bay (present-day Kharg, Kharku, and Bandar-e Rig). The map has...- Contributor: Après De Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis D - Delahaye, Guillaume-Nicolas
- Date: 1775
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MapMap of Kafiristan "Kafiristan, or "The Land of the Infidels," was a region in eastern Afghanistan where the inhabitants had retained their traditional culture and religion and rejected conversion to Islam. In 1896 the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir 'Abd al-Raḥmān Khān (reigned 1880-1901), conquered the area and brought it under Afghan control. The Kafirs became Muslims and in 1906 the region was renamed Nuristan, meaning the "Land...- Contributor: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Sharbau, H. (Henry)
- Date: 1881
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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
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MapArabia. 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...- Date: 1860
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MapA 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: Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D - Niebuhr, Carsten
- Date: 1794
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MapNewest 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
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MapArabia. 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...- Date: 1856
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MapAsia: 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
- Resource: - 1 page