Description: A map depicting the existing empires throughout Asia around 1740. The map shows the extent of the Russian Empire into Siberia and the Russian Tartary, the Turkish Ottoman Empire extending along the Persian Gulf, the Chinese Tartary, the Mogul Empire across India, including Punjab, Sind, Ava, Siam, Tongking, Cochin China, and the Malacca Peninsula, the Independent Tartary of Central Asia, Arabia, Persia, Corea (Korea), and Nippon (Japan). The map shows important cities, ports, and trade centers of the region at the time, rivers, seas, and coastal features.
Place Names: A Complete Map of Asia, Russia, Siberia, Arabia, Persia, India, Chin
ISO Topic Categories: society
Keywords: Empires of Asia, political, historical, society, Unknown, 1740
Source: Ernest Rhys, Ed., A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia (New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & CO., 1912) 17
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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