General Maps of Persia 1477 - 1925 /

General Maps of Persia 1477 - 1925 / / Cyrus Alai.

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Iran, or Persia as it was known in the West for most of its long history, has been mapped extensively for centuries but the absence of a good cartobibliography has often deterred scholars of its history and geography from making use of the many detailed maps that were produced. This is now available...

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Alai, Cyrus,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : BRILL,, 2010.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 80
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 321 pages) :; illustrations, map.
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Table of Contents:
  • To General Maps of Persia (second, revised edition)
  • Key to Special Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword by Tony Campbell
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: The Ptolemaic Maps of Persia
  • Historical Background
  • Ptolemy's Life and His Mapping of Persia
  • The Fifth Map of Asia Depicting Persia
  • Group PTOL-1, Bologna
  • Group PTOL-2, Rome
  • Group PTOL-3, Florence
  • Group PTOL-4, Ulm
  • Group PTOL-5, Early Venice
  • Group PTOL-6, Schott, Strasbourg
  • Group PTOL-7, Grueninger, Strasbourg
  • Group PTOL-8, Basel
  • Group PTOL-9, Gastaldi, Venice
  • Group PTOL-10, Ruscelli, Venice
  • Group PTOL-11, Mercator Plates, Cologne
  • Group PTOL-12, The Netherlands
  • Group PTOL-13, Magini, Venice; Cologne; Arnhem; Padua
  • Group PTOL-14, Sessa, Venice
  • Chapter Two: General and Regional Maps of Persia
  • Historical Background
  • Section One: Italian Maps
  • Section Two: Maps from the Low Countries
  • Section Three: French Maps
  • Section Four: Germanic Maps
  • Section Five: British Maps
  • Section Six: Russian Maps
  • Section Seven: American Maps
  • Section Eight: Persian Maps
  • Section Nine: Turkish Maps
  • Section Ten: Spanish and Portuguese Maps
  • A Curiosity Map, Persia as a Persian Cat
  • List of Consulted Map Collections
  • List of Figures
  • List of Plates
  • Bibliography, Excluding Maps, Atlases and Old Books (pre-1925)
  • Chronological Index of Map Entries
  • Index of Personal and Institutional Names
  • Index of Geographical Names
  • Addenda (including the maps: The Persian Empire, by Thomas Herbert, 1638 and Persiae ut et Maris Caspii Terrarumq vicinarum Delineatio noua A 1725 by Andreae Gro¨nwall).

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