April 12, 2024
RARE 1922 TURKEY CHRISTIAN VS. ISLAM GREECE ARABS MAPS
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RARE 1922 TURKEY CHRISTIAN VS. ISLAM GREECE ARABS MAPS Description: From 1922, the remarkable first edition, A Short History of the Near East, from the Founding of Constantinople, 330 A.D. to 1922. By William Stearns, Ph.D., Prof. of History in the U. of Minnesota. Published by The Macmillan Co., New York, 1922. Bound in blue pebbled cloth with gilt titles, 9x6 inches. With a remarkable 13 maps showing how the Middle and Near East seesawed between Christian and islamic control. A bookplate from the historic collection of the Hartford Public Library, CT. Some wear evident, but in good readable condition. The maps show: the Byzantine Empire at its height, A.D. Constantinople under the Byzantine Emperors (Christians ruling Turkey). The Saracenic World, about 875 A.D. (Arabs) The Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Palestine), after the First Crusade, 1120 A.D. The Balkan and Aegean Lands, about 1350. The Expansion of the Ottoman Empire of Turkey, 1683-1812. The Ottoman Empire, Showing Losses in Europe, 1815-1878. The Balkan Lands after the Berlin Settlement, 1878. Stamboul, Istanbul, Modern Constantinople. The Balkan Lands after the Treaty of Bucharest The Balkans and Levant after the Treaty of Sevres, 1920. The Balkans and Levant as Proposed for Settlement after the Expulsion of the Greeks from Anatolia, 1922.
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