Turkestan : Asie en dix feuilles / dressé par G. Bagge et D. Aïtoff. Turkestan. Asia in Ten Folios. Folio II
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- Created Date
- 1909
- Description
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Feuille II." "Atlas Universale par Vivien de Saint-Martin & Fr. Schrader." "Loaned by the American Geographical Society to the Peace Conference at Versailles, 1918-1919."
This 1909 map covers Turkestan, or the domains of Russia in Central Asia, along with adjoining regions in Persia, Afghanistan, British India, and China. Russia had acquired its vast holdings in Central Asia, including the protectorates of Khiva and Bukhara, in the second half of the previous century. The map shows Bokhara as the state capital of Turkestan and Tashkent, present-day capital of Uzbekistan, as the seat of government. This is the second map in a series of ten published by Hachette in the early 1900s as part of the Atlas Universel (World atlas) by Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin and Franz Schrader. The other maps in the series are: 1, Asia Minor and the Caucasus; 3, Mongolia; 4, Japan, Korea, and Manchuria; 5, Arabia; 6, Persia, Afghanistan, and Northwest India; 7, Northeast India and Tibet; 8, China; 9, South India; and 10, Indochina. One of the contributors to the map is David Alexandrovich Aïtoff (1854–1933), the inventor of the Aïtoff projection in cartography, who first pu
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1:5,000,000 (E 48--E 86/N 58--N 36)
- Creator
Bagge, Gustave, died 1915; Aitoff, David, 1854-1933
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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
- Hachette & Co. (Paris)
- Subjects
- Asia, Central--Maps
- Type
- image
- Language
- French
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Bagge, Gustave, died 1915; Aitoff, David, 1854-1933. Turkestan : Asie en dix feuilles / dressé par G. Bagge et D. Aïtoff. Turkestan. Asia in Ten Folios. Folio II. 1909. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/262. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Bagge, Gustave, died 1915; Aitoff, David, 1854-1933, (1909) Turkestan : Asie en dix feuilles / dressé par G. Bagge et D. Aïtoff. Turkestan. Asia in Ten Folios. Folio II. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/262
- MLA citation style
- Bagge, Gustave, died 1915; Aitoff, David, 1854-1933. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/262>.