1818 Pinkerton Map of Turkey in Europe Greece and the Balkans
by Paul Fearn
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1818 Pinkerton Map of Turkey in Europe Greece and the Balkans
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Paul Fearn
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Photograph
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Pinkerton's extraordinary 1818 map of the Turkey in Europe. Covers the Ottoman Empire's holdings in Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. Includes Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Moldova. Offers considerable detail with political divisions and color coding at the regional level. Identifies cities, towns, castles, important battle sites, castles, swamps, mountains and river ways. Title plate in the lower left quadrant. Two mile scales, in Turkish Miles and British Statute Miles, also appear in the lower left quadrant. Drawn by L. Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton. This map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton’s Modern Atlas, published by Thomas Dobson & Co. of Philadelphia in 1818.
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October 17th, 2013
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