Turkestan. Asia In Ten Folios. Folio II. (Turkestan. Asie En Dix Feuilles. Feuille II) 1909

Old map of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

day capital of Uzbekistan, as the seat of government. This is the second map in a series of ten published by Hachette in the early 1900s as part of the Atlas Universel (World atlas) by Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin and Franz Schrader. The other maps in the series are: 1, Asia Minor and the Caucasus; 3, Mongolia; 4, Japan, Korea, and Manchuria; 5, Arabia; 6, Persia, Afghanistan, and Northwest India; 7, Northeast India and Tibet; 8, China; 9, South India; and 10, Indochina. One of the contributors to the map is David Alexandrovich Aïtoff (1854--1933), the inventor of the Aïtoff projection in cartography, who first published his formulation in an article entitled "Projections des cartes géographiques" that appeared in Atlas de géographie moderne in 1889. The map includes a glossary of Russian and Turkish terms. It was loaned by the American Geographical Society to the Paris Peace Conference of 1918--19, convened to draw up peace treaties after World War I.

Created by David Aïtoff, Gustave Bagge, E. Delaune, Dufrénoy (Firm), P. Vorzet, Franz Schrader, Louis Martin in 1909.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• "Scale 1:5,000,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• Original resource extent: 1 map : color, mounted on linen ; 49 x 53 centimeters.
• Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
• Content in French and Russian and Turkish.
• Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Map Tags

1909

Afghanistan

David Aïtoff

Dufrénoy (Firm)

E. Delaune

Franz Schrader

Gustave Bagge

Kyrgyzstan

Library Of Congress Afghanistan Project

Louis Martin

Map

P. Vorzet

Russian Federation

Tajikistan

Treaty Of Versailles (1919)

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

World War