[MAP] Eastern Turkey in Asia : Alexandretta

Great Britain : War Office, Intelligence Division, 1915. “Sheet 28. I.D.W.O. no. 1522”. “Lithd. at the Intel. Div. War Office May 1902. Corrected to Nov. 1915”. Colour map, 650 x 820 mm (sheet), linen-backed and folding to 210 x 170 mm; relief shown by form lines and spot heights; fine condition, verso annotated ‘Alexandretta 1/250000 R. M. Gladston’s. 4/12/18’.

This British Army Intelligence map, produced around the time of the Dardanelles campaign, formed part of a series published by the War Office covering Mesopotamia and eastern Anatolian parts of Ottoman Empire.

“Compiled at the Intelligence Division, War Office by Major F.R. Maunsell, R.A. from Admiralty Charts Nos. 2632, 2791, 2188, Col H. Stewart 1881.–Capt. Bennet 1882, Oppenheim’s ‘Vom Mittelmeer zum Persischen Golf’ 1893 – sheet 1, Humann & Puchstein’s ‘Karte des Noerdlichen Theils von Syrien,’ Hartmann’s ‘Karte des Liwa Haleb,’ 1883-4, Blanckenhorn’s ‘Karte von Nord Syrien,” 1891, Haussknecht’s Routes 1865, Richard Kieperts ‘Karte von Klein Asien’ Sheet Haleb 1911, Sarre & Herzfeld Archaologische Reise in Euphrate & Tigris gebiet 1908.”