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This was in part a working collection, used by Levasseur and his colleagues for the production of new cartographic materials. The maps were acquired in 1930-1931 by the University of Chicago Library. Most of the maps of Algeria and many of the other maps as well are from the collection that was assembled by the French geographer Emile Levasseur (1828-1911) and bought in 1914 by the old John Crerar Library. More than half of the scholarly maps are offprints from then-new scholarly journals like Petermanns Geographische Mitt(h)eilungen and the Bulletin de la Société de géographie. The Syrian Desert, which also stretches into Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, combines both traditional desert and steppe geography, while the Arabian Desert around Yemen, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf contains more of the rolling sand dunes which often characterize desert imagery. Others are "synthetic" maps that show the results of many decades of research. As a result of its arid climate, the Middle East is home to several of the world’s largest deserts. Some show the paths of recent journeys of exploration. Many of the maps are products of European scholarly interest. A few of the maps are "theatre of war" maps that were published by commercial firms and sold to members of the public who wanted to follow wars that for the first time were being reported in daily newspapers on the basis of telegraph dispatches. The Middle East today: how does its political map differ from 1914 British Promises Made During WWI Sykes-Picot agreement, 1916. Other maps are nautical charts, maps designed to facilitate navigation. Some of the maps of Algeria and Central Asia are military topographic maps that were surely compiled at the behest of colonial administrations. The maps are products of-or were designed to support-the major European and Russian activities in the region: exploration, scientific research, resource exploitation, conquest, and administration. Most of these maps were published in Western Europe, and nearly all the others were published in Russia or in the United States.
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Over the past 500 years, great changes have wracked the Middle East.The old powers of the region Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria and Babylon have all been devastated by invaders from outside their borders: the Sea Peoples from Europe, the Aramaeans from the Syrian desert and the Kuldu (Chaldeans) and other groups from the. This page provides access to scans of some of the 19th-century maps of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. What is happening in Middle East in 1000BCE Invaders.
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Other countries sometimes counted as part of the Middle East and North Africa:Īfghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Turkey.
#MAP OF THE MIDDLE EAST ISO#
List of countries in the Northern Africa and the Middle East with their political seat, national territorial area, number of inhabitants and population density. The Middle East (Arabic:, ISO 233: ash-Sharq al-Awsat) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Ash-Shm and Cyprus), Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the Socotra Archipelago (a. This constitutes approximately 6% of the total world population. The population of the Middle East and North Africa region in its smallest extent is considered to be around 381 million people. The term is more or less synonymous with the term "Greater Middle East". The region of the Middle East and North Africa covers an extensive region, which extends from Morocco to Iran, including all the Mashreq and Maghreb countries of the Middle East.
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