Herat, Afghanistan / published by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen
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- Created Date
- 1880
- Description
Shows vineyards, gardens, cultivated ground, gates and selected points of interest. "Copyright" -- upper right margin. "1404" -- pasted in lower left corner.
This beautifully rendered map of Herat dates from 1880, the final year of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80). The map depicts Herat’s impressive defenses and its roughly square plan. The southern and most imposing part of the citadel, “the Ark” (from the Persian arg, citadel) remains standing and is one of the major landmarks of Herat, as is the Friday Mosque (the Jumma Musjid in northeastern Herat). The defensive walls have long been replaced by spacious boulevards, however. Also noteworthy are the extensive vineyards that surround the city along with gardens and other cultivated land. The governor of Herat, Ayub Khan (1857–1914), was the son of the Afghan ruler Sher Ali Khan, who died in 1879 while seeking the assistance of the Russians against the British forces that had invaded Afghanistan. Sher Ali Khan was succeeded by another son, Mohammad Yaqub Khan (reigned February–October 1879), who adopted a conciliatory policy toward the British. Ayub Khan refused to recognize the conci
Grayscale
1:12,000
- Creator
Wyld, James, 1812-1887
- 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
- James Wyld
- Subjects
- Herat (Afghanistan)--Maps
- Location
- Asia;
Afghanistan;
Herat - Type
- image
- Language
- English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Wyld, James, 1812-1887. Herat, Afghanistan / published by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen. 1880. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/499. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Wyld, James, 1812-1887, (1880) Herat, Afghanistan / published by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/499
- MLA citation style
- Wyld, James, 1812-1887. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/499>.