Karta Hivinskago Hanstva / General Staff, Military Topography Directorate. Карта Хивинскаго ханства и низовьев Аму - Дарьи.
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- Created Date
- 1873
- Description
Map of the Khanate of Khiva and the Lower Reaches of the Amu Darya River
The permanent military presence of imperial Russia in the Aral Sea region dates to 1847, when the Russians founded Fort Aralsk near the mouth of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) River on the northern shore of the sea. At the time Russia was locked with Great Britain in the intense rivalry for influence in Central Asia and Afghanistan that became known as the Great Game. This detailed and beautifully rendered Russian map shows the southern shores of the Aral Sea and the other great river of Central Asia, the Amu Darya or Oxus. The map was published in 1873, a watershed year that saw Russian annexation of the Khanate of Khiva (lying along the course of the Amu Darya in the region depicted in the map) as well as of the Emirate of Bokhara (lying to the southeast of the Khanate of Khiva). The map includes such features as rivers, lakes, marshes, and cultivated areas, in addition to arid regions (labeled as Takir, i.e., salt flats characterized by fissured and cracked surfaces, and solonetz). Also i
Color
1:550,000
- 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
- General Staff, Military Topography Directorate (Moscow)
- Location
- Asia;
Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; - Type
- image
- Language
- Russian
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
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- Karta Hivinskago Hanstva / General Staff, Military Topography Directorate. Карта Хивинскаго ханства и низовьев Аму - Дарьи.. 1873. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/311. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- (1873) Karta Hivinskago Hanstva / General Staff, Military Topography Directorate. Карта Хивинскаго ханства и низовьев Аму - Дарьи.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/311
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/311>.