Khariṭat al-Wajh al-Baḥarī lil-aqālīm al-Miṣrīyah

Title:

Khariṭat al-Wajh al-Baḥarī lil-aqālīm al-Miṣrīyah

Creator:

Ṣabbāgh, Amīn, cartographer

Date:

1872

Description:

Text in Arabic reads: "The first map for Egypt governorates was drawn by the French expedition cartographers at the beginning of the 13th century H. (1213-1216 H.), but the hardships and resistance they have faced during their work, in addition to their ignorance of the Arabic language misled them to put the Arabic names on the right locations. All that lead to various mistakes in the French map and the maps that copied from it until we produced this map.\r\nTherefore, Khedive Ismail of Egypt, ordered me “Mahmoud Bey al Falaky” to draw a new map with the needed corrections. As the needed cartographic tools were not available at the time, I resorted to the astronomical coordinates.\r\nThe map was finished in 1287 H. representing all the cultivation and urbanization that has been implemented upon the orders of the khedive on that year."\r\n\r\n\r\nLithography by F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig.Scale: 1:200,000

Language:

Arabic

Type:

maps

Type (Narrower):

Maps

Type (Broader):

Image

Subject:

\tNile River Delta (Egypt) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.\r\nNile River Valley.\r\nRosetta (Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nDamietta (Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nEgypt -- Maps.\r\nCities and towns -- Egypt -- Maps.\r\nRoads -- Egypt -- Maps.\r\nJinīf Mountains (Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nBaḥr al-Aḥmar (Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nMediterranean Sea -- Maps.\r\nManzala, Lake (Port Said, Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nBurullus, Lake (Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nMarykt, Lake (Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nIdkū, Lake (Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nNatrun Valley (Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nAtaqa Mountains (Egypt) -- Maps.\r\nTopographic maps.\r\nMaps.

Geographic region:

Egypt

Rights:

This item is in the public domain.
To inquire about permissions or reproductions, contact the Rare Books and Special Collections Library, The American University in Cairo at +20.2.2615.3676 or rbscl-ref@aucegypt.edu.

Identifier:

G8202.N5S2 .S32 1872 (https://lib.aucegypt.edu/search~S2/?searchtype=c&searcharg=G8202.N5S2+.S32+1872&searchscope=2&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=1&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=c%09G8304.A5P1+.E3+1934)

Format:

1 map : color ; 98 x 154 cm on sheet (106 x 163 cm) folded in (37 x 28 cm)

Is part of:

Historic Maps Digital Collection

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