Euratlas-Info 23:
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Search and
find the
place in
Europe Photos
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Citadel of...?
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1) THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN 1845
While there are many records of the Western countries, historical
maps of the Middle East are very scarce. Thus, it is really
difficult to recreate the historical geography of Turkey, Lebanon,
the Kurdish regions, Armenia or Iraq, all the more as the populations
were speaking various languages. The replacement of the Ottoman script
with a Latin alphabet in 1928, the specific Armenian and Georgian
alphabets, the various transcriptions of Arabic words and the numerous
transliterations of some names (e.g. from Kurdish to Arabic, then to Ottoman
Turkish and finally to modern Turkish) makes it quite impossible to
locate some places.
Here is a map of the Ottoman Empire realized by Louis Vivien de
Saint-Martin and Adolphe Noël des Vergers and published in Paris
by Charles Picquet in 1845. Names and borders are legible. Therefore it
will be possible to spot the ancient places with their modern
equivalents, to search for the small 19th century Kurdish or Armenian autonomies or to examine the border between the Pashalik of Baghdad and Iran.
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2) GREECE
In
the Europe Photos section, you'll find some new pictures of
Greece: the legendary Bridge of Arta (allegedly built with human
blood), the modern Rio-Antirio Bridge (built with EU funding), the
Souli
Mountains, the Vlach town of Aminciu or Metsovo, the fortress of
Patras, the Meteora, the Fine Gate of Nicopolis and many other views of
Athens and Greek landmarks.
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3) EUROPE AND EUROPEAN UNION 2008
Here is, for Euratlas-Info subscribers only, an A4 printable map of
whole Europe and the European Union. The map shows the names of all the
European countries with their capital-cities and is available
in color or grey level, blank or with labels.
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In September, we will present a 19th century German map of the Nile countries, from Cairo to the Bahr el Ghazal.
Have a nice summer break
Euratlas - C. Nüssli, June 2008
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