Turkey I. (Containing The Northern Provinces)

Description

This map was published in 1833 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) in London as part of an atlas titled “A Series of Outline Maps for the Use of Geographical Students” and was prepared to present the topographic structure of the northern provinces of the Ottoman Empire in a simple and instructive manner. This map, prepared for educational purposes for geography students, depicts geographical shapes by creating a three-dimensional effect with a prominent relief effect and shading method, with mountainous areas, river valleys and coastlines. Place names are given entirely on the geographical structure without ancient city names or modern equivalents. Therefore, the map is a “contour map” designed specifically for physical geography education. The map shows today’s Balkan Peninsula, the Ottoman provinces of Rumelia and the Danube basin in detail. Macedonia and Thrace are located in the south of the map, the Adriatic coast in the west, the Danube River in the north and the western shores of the Black Sea in the east. At the bottom of the map there are distance scales prepared according to both English and ancient units of measurement. SDUK was an important institution that published maps and encyclopedic publications in order to increase access to information throughout the 19th century. The maps prepared by this institution were widely used as course material in secondary schools in both England and Europe.