Map of southern Turkestan
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- 1905
- Description
Relief shown by shading. Shows areas traversed by the Ellsworth, Pumpelly and Davis parties. In upper left corner of margin: "Turkestan" ; in upper right corner of margin: "Plate III." Serves as base map by Ellsworth Huntington and the American Commission to Negotiate Peace for their "Map of the Caspian Sea and of the region to the East," to be used at the Paris Peace Conference by the Inquiry. Annotations describe the contents of the map and show where map is to be altered and trimmed for the Inquiry's purposes. "The shaded area shows the region between the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Aral which would be submerged if Aral should be filled to overflowing, and the Caspian should rise about 150 feet above the present level (after Konchin)"--[Ellsworth Huntington]. Annotation indicates that Map of Southern Turkestan is from no. 26 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. "Loaned by the American Geographical Society to the Peace Conference at Versailles, 1918-1919." Used by t
The name Turkestan means “Land of the Turks” in Persian. Turkestan has never corresponded to a national entity but has been used in the Persianate world and elsewhere to signify the domain of Turkic peoples in Central Asia. During the second half of the 19th century these lands were the setting for the intense political rivalry between Great Britain and Imperial Russia known as the Great Game. During this period, the Russian Empire conquered vast regions in Central Asia. It assigned much of its newly acquired territory to the newly established Governor-Generalship of Turkestan. Of note on this map are the Emirate of Bokhara and the Khanate of Khiva, which were not included in the governor-generalship. Both were made Russian protectorates, following their defeats at the hand of Russia. The Khanate of Kokand (corresponding roughly to the area marked as Ferghana) was conquered in 1876 and, rather than being afforded protectorate status, was annexed into the vast domains of the Governor-Ge
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- Creator
United States. Inquiry
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; 26
American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- A.B. Graham Co
- Subjects
- Asia, Central--Maps
Caspian Sea Lowland (Kazakhstan and Russia)--Maps
Caspian Sea Region--Maps
Aral Sea Region--Maps - Location
- Asia;
Turkestan; - Type
- image
- Language
- English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
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- United States. Inquiry. Map of southern Turkestan. 1905. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1584. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- United States. Inquiry, (1905) Map of southern Turkestan. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1584
- MLA citation style
- United States. Inquiry. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1584>.