1909 — Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map on cloth. A little foxing on cloth. Very good. Folded. Oblong atlas folio. (66 x 72 cm). In Ottoman script. Scale: 1/210.000. Ottoman sanjaks in Greece, mostly in Thessaly. A rare Ottoman map of Balkans with Turkish place names for the period of pre-Balkan Wars, (1912-1913). Very important for onomastics and historical geography. Written 'Paris -French meridian- was accepted as the 0 meridian'. The Paris meridian is a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France-now longitude 2°20'14.03" east. It was a long-standing rival to the Greenwich meridian as the prime meridian of the world. Personal stamp of Muhiddin Pasha on cloth, under the printed descriptive texts. It's from the collection of him. Hasan Muhiddin Pasha [Çanga], (1866-1944), who was a lieutenant in Hedjaz Army of the Ottoman Empire in 1887. After he suppressed the rebellion in Yemen, 1891, his rank was promoted to the 'major'. After the Imam Yahya rebellion in Yemen, 1904, he prepared a report for the Ottoman government. He also took part in Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen, Arabian Peninsula for various military duties. After promotion to division command, he was provincial president of CHP (Republican People's Party). He was a very important politic and diplomatic figure for the last period of Ottoman and early Republican Turkey. Not in Tooley. Extremely rare.
