Maps of the Balkan Peninsula.

Relief shown by spot heights; relief also shown by contours and gradient tints on some sheets. Depths shown by gradient tints and soundings on some sheets. Portfolio title. Common title in upper margin of some 1:1,000,000-scale sheets: Europe, scale 1:1,000,000 -- International map, Europe 1:1,000,000. Statement of attribution in lower margin of some sheets, e.g.: War Office, Jan'y 1912 -- War Office, December 1918 -- Compiled at the Royal Geographical Society under the direction of the Geographical Section, General Staff. Ed. statements in margins of some sheets, e.g.: Drawn and printed by the Ordnance Survey 1915 -- Corrections and additions Aug. 1917 -- Revised Jan'y 1916. Boundary revised Nov'r 1918 -- Provisional edition. Publication date on portfolio: April 1919. Sheets variously include notes, adjoining-sheet index diagram, coverage map, pronunciation glossary, list of source-material "Authorities", and hypsometric tint diagram in margins. Accompanied by supplementary sheet: Table of treaties affecting Balkan boundaries, to explain historical map. 1 sheet: table; 32 x 38 cm. Table of contents on inside of portfolio. Some LC sheets torn at fold lines. LC set originally cl

Date

1919

Mapmaker / publisher

Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section; Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section; Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain); Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

Place

the Balkans

Scale

1:1,000,000

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

map

Sheets

10

Original size

3,593 × 2,405 pixels

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