Old Ottoman Map of Euphrates Valley by Stanford, 1904: Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, Mosul, Kurdistan Size:24x36in (60x90cm) colonial churches

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Old Ottoman Map of Euphrates Valley by Stanford, 1904: Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, Mosul, Kurdistan Size:24x36in (60x90cm) colonial churchesA sweeping portrait of the great river corridor, The Euphrates Valley, Syria, Kurdistan &c. traces the entwined courses of the Euphrates and Tigris from their Anatolian headwaters toward Mesopotamias storied plains. With refined full color lithography and crisp hachures, the map captures the relief of the Taurus and the rugged highlands of Kurdistan as they taper into the steppe and desert. Cities of enduring renownAleppo and Damascus in the west,