Map Der Nahe Osten Verso

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Title

  • Der Nahe Osten

Summary

  • "Shown here is a large folding map produced by the General Staff of the German Army during World War II. Notes on the map indicate that it was solely for use within the army and that reproduction was prohibited. One side is a large map of the region stretching from the Balkan Peninsula to the eastern part of Iran. Shown are towns and cities by population size, international borders, the borders of republics and provinces within the Soviet Union, major and secondary roads, roads under construction, oil pipelines, mountain passes, heights in meters, and bodies of water. The key on the right gives the German equivalents of common geographic expressions in Arabic, Persian, Russian, and Turkish; in the lower right is a pronunciation key for Turkish letters. The reverse side contains a large map entitled Der vordere Orient (The Near East), showing the region from Egypt to eastern Afghanistan. The table at the bottom lists all the territories of the region and their geographic size and population, grouped by category: independent states and British, French, Italian, and Portuguese possessions. Also on this side are a map of the entire Mediterranean Sea from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Levant; and two inset maps, one of Cyprus and another of the islands of Rhodes and the Dodecanese (in present-day Greece but at that time under Italian control)." World Digital Library.

Names

  • Germany. Heer. Generalstab

Created / Published

  • Berlin : Gedruckt im Deutschen Verlag, 1944.

Headings

  • -  Middle East--Maps
  • -  Middle East

Genre

  • Maps

Notes

  • -  Relief shown by shading and spot heights.
  • -  "Stand vom 22. 4. 1944."
  • -  "1944 Tornisterschrift Heft 97."
  • -  "Nur fur den Gebrauch innerhalb der Wehrmacht."
  • -  Includes population in cities and towns, abbreviations, frequent foreign language place references in Turkish, Russian, Persian and Arabic, in addition to pronunciation key of Turkish letters.
  • -  Insets: Rhodos und der Dodekanes -- Der Mittelmeerraum -- Der Vordere Orient.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  Change author Cutter.

Medium

  • 1 map : color ; 54 x 81 cm, folded 29 x 22 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G7420 1944 .D4

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2013586106

Online Format

  • image

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Germany. Heer. Generalstab. Der Nahe Osten. Berlin: Gedruckt im Deutschen Verlag, 1944. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2013586106/>.