File:1818 Pinkerton Map of Turkey in Europe, Greece andamp, the Balkans - Geographicus - TurkeyEurope2-pinkerton-1818.jpg
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John Pinkerton: Turkey in Europe. ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q3446354 |
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Turkey in Europe. |
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Description |
English: Pinkerton's extraordinary 1818 map of Turkey in Europe. Covers the Ottoman Empire's holdings in Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. Includes Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Moldova. Offers considerable detail with political divisions and color coding at the regional level. Identifies cities, towns, castles, important battle sites, castles, swamps, mountains and river ways. Title plate in the lower left quadrant. Two mile scales, in Turkish Miles and British Statute Miles, also appear in the lower left quadrant. Drawn by L. Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton. This map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton’s Modern Atlas, published by Thomas Dobson & Co. of Philadelphia in 1818. |
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Date | 1818 (undated) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 28.5 in (72.3 cm); width: 20 in (50.8 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,28.5U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,20U218593 |
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Geographicus link: TurkeyEurope2-pinkerton-1818 |
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Pinkerton, J., A Modern Atlas, from the Lates and Best Authorities, Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires, Kingdoms, and States; in Sixty Maps, carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources. 1818, Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson Edition.
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