Historic Map : Migeon Map of Turkey in Asia, 1878, Vintage Wall Art Historical images of the Writers' Building The fascinating story of this

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Historic Map : Migeon Map of Turkey in Asia, 1878, Vintage Wall Art Historical images of the Writers' Building The fascinating story of thisThis is a fine example of J. Migeon's 1878 map of Turkey in Asia and the Caucuses. Migeon's map covers from the Crimea south to egypt, west as far as the Aegean, and east to the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The map essentially covers the mid 19th century claims of the Ottoman empire, including the modern nations of Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, Israel or Palestine, Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, with parts of adjacent Iran, Greece,