'Route between Karaman and Kiz Kale', c1915. Creator: Stanford's Geographical Establishment.

'Route between Karaman and Kiz Kale', c1915. Creator: Stanford's Geographical Establishment.

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'Route between Karaman and Kiz Kale', c1915. '(Note Boyalar is about 8 miles S. of Karaman)'. Map showing the journey of British writer, soldier and diplomatic advisor Mark Sykes between Karaman (in Central Anatolia) and Kizkalesi on the coast of the Mediterranean in Turkey, (at that time part of the Ottoman Empire). Features marked include towers, lakes, temples, theatres, caves, ruins, aqueducts and castles. Sykes (1879-1919) travelled through Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Persia and Turkey between 1905 and 1913, was honorary attaché to the British Embassy in Constantinople 1905-1906, was elected to parliament, worked in the Intelligence department of the War Office during the First World War, and died of the Spanish flu aged 39. From "The Caliphs' Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes. [Macmillan & Co, London, 1915]


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Creator
  1. Stanford's Geographical Establishment, attributed to: British: Mapmaker, mapmakers, cartographer, cartographers
People Related
  1. Mark Sykes: British: Author, writer, soldier, traveller, politician, diplomatic advisor
  2. Macmillan Publishers: British: Publisher

Picture Type
  1. Map

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World Asia Turkey Asia Minor

  1. 39 00 00 N , 035 00 00 E

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5150x3225
File Size : 48,659kb


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  1. 2N
  1. 0580066870
  1. 2-751-894
  1. 2751894

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