[Map] The Near East

Descripción

Colour printed paper folding map with inset 100x79cm. Good, neatly folded, spotted, at some point displayed, with pinholes and shadowing from old tape (since removed) to the corners and top edge, and a closed tear. Dated 2-52 to the code, and printed 5-57. Offering a strategic Cold War era overview of the region, coverage is centred on the Arabian Peninsula, bounded by Greece (NW), the USSR-China border (NE), the Rann of Kutch (SE), and Libyan Desert (SW) on a 1/5M scale. The inset shows the Nile Delta on a 1/1.25M scale. Details include international boundaries (demarcated, delimited, or de facto), 6 sizes of settlement, major oil pipelines, pumping stations, motorable routes, and 3 gauges of railway. A Glossary broken down by country includes geographical terms translated for Afghanistan, Albania, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Arabia, Egypt, Greece, India and Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Italy Eritrea Libya, Syria and Lebanon, Turkey, and USSR.

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Detalles bibliográficos

Título

[Map] The Near East

Editor

Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, US Army, Washington DC

Fecha de publicación

1957

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

No Binding

Edición

3rd Edition

Estado

Good