Western Asia. (Asie Occidentale) 1809

Old map of Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

1850). It covers the region between Novgorod and Arkhangelsk, Russia in the northwest and the mouth of the Indus River in the southeast. The southern coast of the Arabian (Persian) Gulf appears as an almost smooth gentle curve, broken only by the mouth of large river called Aftan (present-day Wadi al-Sahba, Saudi Arabia), level with the island of Bahrain. The peninsula and the name Qatar are not shown. The map has an elegant title cartouche in the form of a camel richly draped. Lapie was a colonel in the French army who became head of the topographical section in the Ministry of War. He was assisted by his son Alexandre Emile Lapie (flourished circa 1829--50), also a French military cartographer, who worked with his father over a period of many years. The map provides scales of distance in five different units: myriameters (10,000 meters), leagues, nautical leagues, Russian versts, and Turkish agachs or Persian parasangs. Paris is given as the prime meridian. The engraver was Jean Baptiste Marie Chamouin (born 1768) and the map was drawn by Giraldon Bovinet.

Created by Jean Baptiste Marie Chamouin, Mrs Diot, Flourished Bovinet, M. (Pierre) Lapie, Conrad Brun, 19th Century in 1809.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• "Published in Précis de la géographie universelle (Summary of universal geography) in 1810 by Conrad Malte-Brun."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• Original resource extent: 1 map : hand colored ; 25.5 x 34.5 centimeters.
• Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
• Content in French.
• Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

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Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Balkan Peninsula

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Cyprus

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Georgia

Iran Islamic Republic Of

Iraq

Israel

Jean Baptiste Marie Chamouin

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kuwait

Lebanon

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Oman

Pakistan

Persian Gulf

Qatar

Red Sea

Russian Federation

Saudi Arabia

Syrian Arab Republic

Turkey

Turkmenistan

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Yemen