Sujet

'Section of Route from Diarbekir to Sivas and Sivas to Sinope by Aneroid readings', c1915. Creator: Stanford's Geographical Establishment.

Légende

'Section of Route from Diarbekir to Sivas and Sivas to Sinope by Aneroid readings', c1915. Map showing the journeys, with altitude above sea level, of British writer, soldier and diplomatic advisor Mark Sykes in Turkey (at that time part of the Ottoman Empire), between 1905 and 1913. Sykes (1879-1919) travelled through Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Persia and Turkey, was honorary attaché to the British Embassy in Constantinople 1905-1906, was elected to parliament, worked in the Intelligence department of the War Office during the First World War, and died of the Spanish flu aged 39. From "The Caliphs' Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes. [Macmillan & Co, London, 1915]

Date

1915

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19F27_044

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

47,5Mo (2,9Mo) / 45,0cm x 26,5cm / 5310 x 3125 (300dpi)

Mots clés

voyage taille montagne montagnes Moyen-est pays la science La Turquie géographie altitude itinéraire Turc endroit siècle empire niveau de la mer Sinop B W les années 10 20ème siècle The Print Collector map Mark Sinope Sykes Macmillan Sir Mark Sykes Macmillan Publishers Mark Sykes Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes 6th Baronet Lieutenant Colonel Sir Mark Sykes Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes Tatton Benvenuto Mark Stanford's Geographical Establishment Stanfords aneroid carte géographique