La Turquie D'Europe Et Celle D'Asie

A fine example of Rigobert Bonne and Guilleme Raynal’s 1780 map of Turkey in Europe and Asia. This map of the Ottoman Empire includes the areas stretching from Italy, Hungary, and modern day Austria in the west, to the Caspian (Caspiene) Sea and Iran in the east, to the Persian Gulf and Egypt's Nile Delta in the south. Includes modern day Greece and Turkey in their entirety (including the area formerly known as Kurdistan), as well as Georgia (Georgie), Armenia, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Denotes Jerusalem, Baghdad (Bagdad), Constantinople (the capital of the Roman Empire) and other important cities. Highly detailed with rivers, lakes, and mountain ranges labeled. Includes 5 scales of measurement in the bottom left quadrant. Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, Dressé pour l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Établissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes.

Date

1780

Place

the Balkans

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

2,500 × 1,713 pixels

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