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Iran und Turan: Persien, Afghanistan, Biludschistan, Turkestan (new edition 1843; 1845 issue)

Iran und Turan : Persien, Afghanistan, Biludschistan, Turkestan. Neue Bearbeitung von F. v. Stülpnagel. 1843.

Friedrich von Stuelpnagel; Stieler's Hand-Atlas, Justus Perthes

Map: Iran und Turan, Stieler, 1843
Picture: David Rumsey Map Collection (CC BY-NC-SA). See it at full size at the library

How we know

compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.

Compilation from published surveys and travel reports; no observation by the mapmaker.

Research notes
  • Compiled from Burnes, Conolly, Meyendorff, Russian sources (Humboldt's Asie centrale 1843 era).

Why it matters

Fills the 1840s gap for Central Asia with the German nomenclature 'Turan' where British maps wrote 'Independent Tartary'; a direct comparison sheet for the presentation.

Places named

Turan / Turkestan (Khiva, Bukhara, Kokand); Iran; Afghanistan; Baluchistan; Aral; Caspian

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