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Catalogue description 'A map of the countries between Constantinople [now Istanbul] and Calcutta including...
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| Reference: | MPK 1/264/2-3 |
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| Description: |
'A map of the countries between Constantinople [now Istanbul] and Calcutta including Turkey in Asia, Persia [now Iran], Afghanistan & Turkestan': 2 copies of the left-hand (western) side only of the map, extending as far as eastern Persia. Reference table. Published by Edward Stanford, Ltd, London. Different MS additions, coloured, to each sheet: (2) showing railways, roads, and the disposition of British, Russian and Turkish forces and of friendly and hostile Arabs and Kurds; (3) showing railways, oil areas, submarine bases, a thinly populated region fit for European colonisation, and virgin soil which would admit of cultivation. Several brief, typed notes affixed to item 3; typed reference tables to additions affixed to both items. Originally enclosed with a paper by Sir Mark Sykes: 'The Problem of the Near East', 20 June 1916. |
| Date: | [1916] |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 67 cm x 57 cm |
| Map scale: | 1:6969600 |
| Physical condition: | Printed |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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