Turkey - Ottoman Empire
Battle for the Fate of the Levant.
ردشمنلوا میسرت كنویامه هیرب هناخسدنهم هطیرح وبشا [This map was drawn by the Imperial Engineering Office].
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An extraordinary, one-of-a-kind large-format manuscript folding map of Ottoman Syria produced by the sultan's Imperial Engineering Office c. 1832. It was made in the context of the First Egyptian Ottoman War (1831 - 1833), which saw the region temporarily come under Egyptian rule. (more details)
Most Detailed Ottoman Map of Montenegro Ever Produced.
... ١٨٦٩ سنه سی اوستريا دولتی جغرافيا جمعيت عسكريه سی واسطه سيله تنظيم قلنان قره طاغ وجوارينك خريطه سی اولوب / [This is a map of Montenegro and its Surroundings, prepared by means of the Austrian Militärgeographisches Institut in the year 1869...].
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This is a rare 1875 Ottoman Turkish large-format folding map of Montenegro produced by the Erkân-ı Harbiye Dairesi, the General Staff Department of the Ottoman military, based on an earlier 1869 Austrian map prepared by the Militärgeographisches Institut. Combining Austrian and Ottoman cartographic knowledge, largely gained during the Ottoman-Montenegrin War (1861 - 1862), it is the most detailed Ottoman map of Montenegro produced before the kingdom's independence. (more details)
Calling for an Armenian State during the Armenian Genocide.
Գունավոր ընդարձակ քարտէս Հայաստանի բնական մաս. / [Colored Expanded Physical Map of Armenia.]
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Published in Istanbul in 1923, at the tail end of the Armenian Genocide, this remarkable chromolithograph persuasive map in the Armenian language calls for an expansive independent Armenian state. Known as 'Wilsonian Armenia', the lands mapped here roughly conform to the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, which called for an Armenian homeland. The 'Armenian' stipulations within the treaty were never actualized. The map is almost certainly a response to the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), which effectively erased Wilsonian Armenia from the diplomatic record. Considering the context of the Armenian Genocide and open anti-Armenian sentiment in Istanbul, it is a remarkable achievement that this map was even published. (more details)
First specific map of Beyoğlu.
Plan des Faubourgs de Constantinople. Galata, Pera et Pancaldi uni au sixième district communal ainsi que leurs confins. / Plan der zum 6ten Communalbezirk vereinigten Vorstädte Galata, Pera und Pancaldi von Constantinople nebst deren Angrenzungen.
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This is a c. 1861 C. Stolpe city plan or map of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey. It is the oldest known map of Beyoğlu, in one of just three surviving examples. Today Beyoğlu is Istanubl's most fashionable neighborhood. (more details)
Celebrating the Hejaz Railway from Damascus to Medina.
سوریه قطعهسی / [The Region of Syria].
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This exceptionally rare c. 1912 Ottoman folding map of the Levant highlights the Hejaz Railway. Across scorching deserts, waterless expanses, and some of the most unforgiving terrain on earth, the Ottoman Empire forged one of the Islamic world's great engineering achievements: the Hejaz Railway. Financed without European loans through contributions from Muslims around the globe and constructed increasingly by Ottoman engineers and Muslim workers, the line reached more than 1,300 kilometers from Damascus to Medina (المدينة) by 1908. (more details)
Baghdad in Transition from Ottoman to British Rule.
بغداد شهری / [City of Baghdad].
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This is a rare c. 1925 Ottoman Turkish map of Baghdad, originally prepared by Rashid (Reşid) Bey and updated by the Erkân-ı Harbiye-i Umûmiye Matbaasından, the Printing House of the General Staff of the Turkish military. Although published after the city's capture by British forces, the map presents the city at the end of the Ottoman period, with references to its earlier history. (more details)
Ottoman Preparations for the 'Last Stand' in the Levant.
يلديرم اردولر غروپى نزد مؤسسه مؤسسات صحيه و حيوانيهسى مشروحدور / [The medical and veterinary institutions and establishments attached to the Yıldırım Army Group are detailed here].
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This is a rare and likely unique c. 1918 large-format Ottoman military resource map of the Levant prepared by the Yıldırım Orduları Grubu (Lightning Armies Group), the elite field command established to halt the advancing British Empire and its Arab allies during the final stages of World War I (1914-1918). Combining printed cartography with handstamps and manuscript annotations, the map inventories the region's strategic infrastructure, emphasizing hospitals, medical depots, supply centers, transportation networks, and other critical military resources essential to sustaining Ottoman operations. Intended for high-level logistical planning rather than tactical battlefield use, such a comprehensive assessment of military assets would have been among the Ottoman Empire's most closely guarded wartime documents, offering an extraordinary glimpse into the administrative and logistical foundations of the Palestine Campaign. (more details)
Modernizing Ottoman maritime data.
مارمارا ضنيزي / [Sea of Marmara].
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A fascinating 1896 nautical chart or map of the Sea of Marmara, including the Bosphorus Straits, published by the Ottoman Matbaa-i Bahriye (Printing House of the Naval Forces). It is based on a British Admiralty chart of the same, reflecting both the advanced state of British hydrography at the time and the efforts of the late Ottoman state to close the gap with Western empires. (more details)
Ottoman map of Istanbul's defenses on the eve of World War I.
Istanbul ve Boğazı ve civarı haritası / [Map of Istanbul, the Bosphorus, and Surroundings].
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This is a rare c. 1911 (1327 AH) large-scale folding Ottoman map of Istanbul, the Bosporus, and environs. This map was published by a military-affiliated publisher amid multiple crises in the European portion of the Ottoman Empire. Its ready foldability suggests that it was intended for use in the field, perhaps preparing fortifications in the event of an attack on the city. (more details)
England as Madman Colossus during the Russo-Turkish War.
Il Colosso di Rodi. Papagallo. No. 41. Anno V.
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An 1877 Italian allegorical image lampooning the British intervention in the Russo-Turkish War (1877 - 1878). It represents regional fear the era’s great hegemonic powers, Britain and Russia, would use the Mediterranean and a theater to play out global imperialist conflicts. (more details)
Rooted in the Past, Building for the Future.
A remarkably detailed manuscript pictorial view of Izmir, Turkey's third largest and one of its most ancient continuously inhabited cities (formerly known as Smyrna), produced by an unknown artist in 1993 or soon afterwards. It highlights several important infrastructure projects undertaken in the 1980s and early 1990s, including the construction of the city's subway or metro system. (more details)
Identifies many of the ancient ruins surrounding the bay!
Coast of Syria. Iyskanderin Latakiah and Markhab.
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This is a c.1858 manuscript nautical chart or maritime map of the Bay of Iskenderun in modern-day Turkey. Copied by hand from a British Admiralty chart, this map's creator exhibits extreme care and attention to detail, positioning nearly every depth sounding almost precisely where it appears on the printed version. Notes along the coastline provide landmarks and understanding and identify various landscapes, including 'very low sand hills,' 'cultivated and uncultivated plains', 'low swampy ground and shallow lakes,' and 'barren hills covered with brush wood.' Alexandretta, also known as Iskenderun, appears on the right side of the bay. Villages are labeled all around the bay, and the areas extensive river and stream network is depicted in detail. (more details)
Crimea and Caucasus of the 17th century.
Tartaria d'Europa o vero Piccola Tartaria divisa da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola ne Tartari Nogai e del Crim, o di Precop Soggetti al proprio Kam ne Tartari di Budziack, d'Oczackow, e di Dobruss, soggetti al Turco, ne Tartari Circassi, e di Mordua Soggetti al Gran Duca di Moscovia e nelle Due Uckraine...
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This is a 1684 Cantelli da Vignola map of the Caucasus, the lands of the Circassian and Crimean Tartars, Georgia, and Ukraine. The region - peopled by an array of Tatar and Cossack tribes - was largely under the domination of the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde, but represented a borderland contested by the Grand Duchy of Muscovy and the Turkish Empire. (more details)
Anatolia as known to Ancient Rome.
[Tabula I. Asiae].
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This is Laurent Fries' 1525 edition of Martin Waldseemüller's Ptolemaic map of Anatolia, one of the earliest generally acquirable maps of what would become modern-day Turkey. (more details)
Forgotten Austro-Turkish War of 1737-39.
Theatrum belli inter imperat. Carol VI et sult. Achmet IV in partibus regnorum Serviae et Bosniae ex authenticis subsidys delineatum a Ioh. Fr. Ottingero. / Regnum Bosniae, una cum finitimis Croatiae, Damatiae, Slavoniae, Hung et Servia partibus… / Regni Servia una cum finitimis Valachiae et Bulgariae partibus…
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This is an uncommon large-format c. 1739 Homann Heirs map of the Balkans drawn by the royal military engineer Johann Friedrich (Franz) Ottinger (fl. c. 1736 - 1765). It is superbly detailed and includes two dozen insets of cities and fortifications, illustrating the events of the Austro-Turkish War of 1737 - 1739. (more details)
Ottoman Empire's Turkish-speaking Orthodox Minority.
ΜΕΜΑΛΙΚΙ ΟΣΜΑΝΙΓΕΝΙΝ ΑΣΙΑ ΚΗΤΑΣΗ. / [Territories of the Ottoman Empire - Asian Possessions.]
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This is a fascinating c. 1880 map of the Asian portion of the Ottoman Empire in the Karamanli Turkish type. The map reflects the complex and contradictory trends of the late Ottoman period, in which the empire's remarkable cosmopolitanism collided with 19th-century nationalism. (more details)
Walls of the Sea.
قلعه سلطانيه / [Sultaniye Castle].
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This is a 1922 Ottoman Turkish military and topographic map of the Dardanelles, produced by the Erkan-ı Harbiye-i Umumiye Matbaası. It highlights fortifications, lines of communication, and other essential military information constructed just before and during World War I (1914 - 1918), preparations that would pay off during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. (more details)
Two of the Most Magnificent Religious Structures on Earth.
[Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul].
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A striking and finely executed hand-drawn c. 1850 manuscript view of the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. This view presents the Sarayburnu Hill, Istanbul, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire, focusing on the Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque) and Hagia Sophia. (more details)
Dying Days of the Ottoman Empire.
عثمانلي وطن / [Ottoman Homeland].
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A scarce, large-format folding map of the Ottoman Empire, produced c. 1917 by the Ministry of Public Education (Maarif-i Umumiye Nezareti) to demonstrate the empire's historical territorial changes. Produced at a time of drastic transition, the map harkens to the Ottomans' glorious history as well as their precarious contemporary situation, as a modern, territorial sense of nationhood was supplanting an older system of suzerainty and adaptive rule over diverse, multiethnic populations. (more details)
Published during the Austro-Turkish War.
Helespont ou Detroit de Dardanelles pour servir de renseignement à la Carte des Limites des trois Empires ou Théatre de la Guerre.
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This is a 1788 François Joseph Maire map of the Dardanelles or the Hellespont in Turkey. A strait that forms a part of the boundary between Europe and Asia, separating Asian Turkey from European Turkey, the map depicts the Dardanelles from the east with the Gallipoli peninsula at center. Cities and towns are labeled all along the coast of the Strait, with particular attention paid to Gallipoli (now called Gelibolu). Topography is illustrated and Mount Ida is labeled. (more details)
Straddling Europe and Asia.
[Istanbul / Constantinople].
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A romantic, unrecorded c. 1800 watercolor view of Istanbul from the Asian side of the Bosphorus, looking at grand city's main landmarks from across the water. (more details)
Armenian Kingdom of Urartu.
This is a rare separately issued Armenian-language 1980 Suren Yeremian map of the historical Kingdom of Urartu - an Armenian civilization that existed between 860 and 590 BCE. The Urartu period is considered a golden age in the ancient history of the Armenian people. (more details)
By a Moldavian Prince.
A Plan of Constantinople.
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A scarce 1734 map of Istanbul / Constantinople and the Bosporus, issued to accompany Nicholas Tindal's publication of Demetrius Cantemir's History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire. (more details)
Drypoint etching of Istanbul.
[Istanbul]
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This is a scarce 1901 drypoint view of Istanbul / Constantinople published by James Tyroler. The view looks north on the Golden Horn from across the Bosporus. The distinctive domes and minarets of the Blue Mosque are clearly recognizable. In the distance the waterfront Dolmabahçe Palace is discernable. The foreground is occupied by sailing and fishing vessels. (more details)
A Beautiful Map of the Lower Danube and the Turkish Frontier in Europe
Exactissima Tabula qua tam Danubii Fluvii Pars Inferoir, a Belgrado Urbe usq ad Ejus Ostia, et Minores in eum Influentes Fluvii, quam Regiones Adjacentes, ut Transylvania, Valachia, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Bessarabia et Romonia,, aliqu Ucraniae ac Podoliae Tractus Finitimi Ostenduntur per Nicolaum Visscher.
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This is a beautiful, contemporary-color example of Nicolas Visscher's c. 1677 map of the lower Danube River, showing the Turkish administrative regions along the Black Sea coast. The map encompasses Transylvania, Serbia, Wallachia, Bulgaria and Romania. Portions of Greece and the Ukraine appear as well. Belgrade, Bucharest, and Istanbul are among the major cities appearing here. This map is notable in naming the Sanjaks, or Ottoman provinces in this contentious frontier region. These extend from the Sanjak of Ochakov (Ukraine on the Black Sea Coast) to the Sanjak of Gallipoli on the Sea of Marmora. Turkish rule in these regions was, by the time this map was produced, so established that many of the place names here are given both in approximations of the Turkish toponymy as well as European. (more details)
A Likely Appendix Issue of a Richly Decorative Dutch Map of Asia Minor and Cyprus
Natolia, quae olim Asia Minor.
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This 1636 map of Asia Minor and Cyprus was engraved by Jansson in 1636 for inclusion in his business partner Henry Hondius's atlases. This example, lacking verso text and exhibiting a bold, sharp strike, was probably an early appendix issue intended for distribution to previous subscribers to Hondius' atlas. The map depicts the region from the Aegean Sea to the Euphrates River, and from the Black Sea to Cyprus and the Mediterranean Sea. The beautifully engraved map is embellished with an evocative cartouche flanked by two turbaned putti. West of Cyprus, two Ottoman triremes blast away at a square-rigged ship, alluding to the long contention between Turkish and Christian European powers over the region. Hondius and Jansson produced this map quite shortly after fellow Amsterdam mapmaker Blaeu produced a virtually identical map in 1634. Despite the heated competition evident between the two mapmaking giants, the map's geographical data was not strictly fresh - the 16th century cartographic giant, Gastaldi, remained authoritative with respect to this region. (more details)
Territorial Ambitions of Imperial Russia in the Ukraine.
Tabula Geographica qua pars Russiae Magnae, Pontus Euxinus, seu Mare Nigrum et Tartaria Minor cum finitimis Bulgariae, Romaniae, et Natoliae Provinciis exhibitur.
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This is a beautiful original color example of Johann Baptist Homann's 1716 map of the Black Sea region, including modern-day Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia. The map was produced during the reign of Peter the Great, when Russia actively warred with Sweden, the Crimean Tatars, and the Ottoman Turks. The region from the Don River on north to Moscow is here designated Russiae Maximae - or 'Greater Russia' thus expressing the extent of Peters ambitions. (more details)
First Christian Kingdom.
ՄԵԾ ՀԱՅՔԻ ԹԱԳԱՎՈՐՈՒԹՅՈՒՆԸ IV ԴԱՐՈՒՄ (298-385 թթ.) [The Kingdom of Greater Armenia in the IV Century (298-385)].
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This is a rare, separately issued 1979 Suren Yeremian map of the Armenian Kingdom of the Arsacid Dynasty, published in Armenian. This work represents decades of Yeremain's meticulous and unique research to recover forgotten Armenian history. (more details)
A beautiful early 18th century map of Asia Minor.
Natolia, quae olim Asia Minor.
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This is an attractive c. 1708 map of Turkey or Asia Minor. Issued by Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk, it was engraved in 1636 by Henry Hondius, based on the 1634 map by Johannes Blaeu. The map depicts the region from the Aegean Sea and some of the Aegean Islands to ... (more details)
Hungary and the Habsburgs.
Regnorum Hungariae, Dalmatiae, Croatiae, Sclavoniae, Bosniae, Serviae et Principatus Transylvaniae novissima exhibitio.
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A striking example of Johann Baptist Homann's c. 1710 map of the Kingdom of Hungary and environs, produced for his Neuer Atlas. It reflects the most up-to-date information available at a time when this region was bitterly contested and underwent frequent territorial shifts. (more details)
Highly decorative mid-18th century map of Turkey.
Carte de l'Asie Mineure ou de la Natolie et du Pont Euxin, tiree des Voyages et des Observations des Anciens et Modernes. Asiae Minoris Veteris et Novae, itemque Ponti Euxini et Paludis Maeotidis Mappa val Tabula.
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This is an attractive 1743 map of Asia Minor by the Homann Heirs. The map depicts Turkey and the regions surrounding the Black Sea including parts of modern day Crimea, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Greece. Centered on the Black Sea, extends south to ... (more details)
Early State of Homann's Greece and Balkans map.
Fluviorum in Europa principis Danubii cum Adiacentibus Regnis nec non totius Graeciae et Archipelagi Novissima Tabula.
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An example of Johann Baptist Homann's c. 1710 map of southeastern Europe, with a special focus on the Danube River. (more details)