Carte du Liban d'apres les reconnaissances de la brigade topographique du corps expeditionnaire de Syria en 1860-1861. Map of Lebanon According to Reconnaissance Information Collected by the Topographical Group from the Syria Expedition of 1860-1861
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- Created Date
- 1862
- Description
Shows part of present day Israel. Shows part of Syria with Damascus. Relief shown by hachures. Engraved by Erhard Schieble. Includes a table of population. "Dressee au depot de la guerre." "Etant Directeur Le General Blondel." "Sous Le Ministre De S.E. Le Marechal Comte Randon."
This map of Lebanon showing part of Syria with Damascus was made by French military cartographers in 1862. It is based on information gathered by the topographic unit in the expeditionary corps sent by France to Lebanon in 1860‒61. Lebanon was at that time part of the Ottoman Empire and the central region known as Mount Lebanon was mainly populated by Christians and Druzes. A Maronite peasant uprising in 1858 led to fighting between the two groups, which culminated in the massacre in 1860 by the Druze of about 10,000 Maronite Catholics as well as Greek Catholics and Greek Orthodox. France, exercising its traditional role as the European protector of the Christians of the Middle East, sent a force of 6,000 soldiers to Lebanon, which landed in Beirut on August 16, 1860. The troops remained in the country until June 1861 and succeeded in restoring order. The map shows district borders, cities and towns, railroads, mosques, Christian convents or monasteries, and rivers and other geographic
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1:200,000 (E 35 45--E 36 30/N 35--N 33).
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- 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
- Lemercier (Paris, France)
- Subjects
- Middle East--Maps
- Type
- image
- Language
- French
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
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- Carte du Liban d'apres les reconnaissances de la brigade topographique du corps expeditionnaire de Syria en 1860-1861. Map of Lebanon According to Reconnaissance Information Collected by the Topographical Group from the Syria Expedition of 1860-1861. 1862. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/284. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- (1862) Carte du Liban d'apres les reconnaissances de la brigade topographique du corps expeditionnaire de Syria en 1860-1861. Map of Lebanon According to Reconnaissance Information Collected by the Topographical Group from the Syria Expedition of 1860-1861. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/284
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/284>.