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    United Arab Emirates/Oman reference graphic "Map date: 05 July 2005." Relief shown by gradient tints. "Suitable for planning purposes only." "Copyright 2005 by the United States Government." Includes location diagram. "NGA ref. no. K463XAEMUREFGRA." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 2005
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    Franklin's CIA maps of the Middle East : Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq 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
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    A Current and Correct Depiction of Arabia Felix, Arabia Petraea, and Arabia Deserta.
    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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    The Coast of Arabia the Red Sea, and Persian Sea of Bassora Past the Straits of Hormuz to India, Gujarat and Cape Comorin.
    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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    A Chart of the Coast of Arabia, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean. 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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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
    • 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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    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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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
    • 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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    New Map of the Arabia Felix (South-Eastern Arabian Peninsula).
    Arabia Felice nvova tavola     This map of Arabia Felix is a copper-plate engraving dating from 1561, after Giacomo Gastaldi's map of 1548. It shows the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of Hormuz, and part of the Indian Ocean. The Qatar Peninsula southeast of Baharam (present-day Bahrain) can be clearly distinguished. This edition is by Girolamo Ruscelli (died 1566), a Venetian cartographer, polymath, and humanist. One of...
    • Contributor: Gastaldi, Giacomo - Ruscelli, Girolamo, Died Approximately 1565
    • Date: 1561
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Map 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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sixth 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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Persia, 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
    • 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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf.
    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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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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
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Map 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
    • Resource: - 1 page