Iran : oestliche haelfte enthaltend Afghanistan, Balutschistan, und die Oezbeghischen Khanate am Oxus / H. Kiepert ; Verlag von Dietrich Reimer. Iran. Eastern Half Including Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and the Uzbek Khanate on the Oxus
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- Created Date
- 1878
- Description
Relief shown by shading and spot heights. "October 1878."
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 hӓlfte enthaltend Afghanistan, Balutschistan, und die Özbeghischen Khanate am Oxus (Iran. Eastern Half Including Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and the Uzbek Khanate on the Oxus), can perhaps be understood in terms of historic Persian claims over parts of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, dating from the Safavid and Afsharid dynasties of Persia. Given the author’s interest in ancient history, it is also possible that, in choosing his title, he was referring to the history of the ancient world and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia (550−330 BC). Whatever the case, prior to the publication of this map the ruling Qajar dynasty of Persia had ceded its claims to Afghanistan in the Treaty of Paris (1857), concluded with Great Britain after th
Color
1:3,000,000.
- Creator
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Dietrich Reimer Verlag (Berlin, Germany)
- Subjects
- Iran--Maps
- Type
- image
- Language
- German
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899. Iran : oestliche haelfte enthaltend Afghanistan, Balutschistan, und die Oezbeghischen Khanate am Oxus / H. Kiepert ; Verlag von Dietrich Reimer. Iran. Eastern Half Including Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and the Uzbek Khanate on the Oxus. 1878. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/349. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899, (1878) Iran : oestliche haelfte enthaltend Afghanistan, Balutschistan, und die Oezbeghischen Khanate am Oxus / H. Kiepert ; Verlag von Dietrich Reimer. Iran. Eastern Half Including Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and the Uzbek Khanate on the Oxus. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/349
- MLA citation style
- Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/349>.