Carte hydrographique de la Moyenne égypte : ou sont indiqué les travaux exécuter d'prés les orderes de Son Altesse Méhémet-Ali Vice-Roi d'égypte, avec le project de la communication directe des mers au traverse de l'Isthme

Description:

Shows roads and water systems, either for irrigation or transportation.; Relief shown by hachures.; Map was produced, upon Vicory of Egypt and Sudan (Muhammad Said Pasha, Muhammad Ali's fourth son) orders in occasion of linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea by the Suez Canal. Shows administative division of Middle Egypt: I. Gizé (Jizah)-- II. Fayoum (Fayyum) -- III. Bénésouef (Bani Suwayf)-- IV. Fechen et Béné-nesar (or al Fashn, part of Bani Suwayf) -- V. Miniet (Minya).; Includes geographical notes.; Copy has ms. annotations. 92 x 62 centimeters Scale 1:250,000 General Map Collection

Creator:

Linant de Bellefonds, L.-M.-A. (Louis Maurice Adolphe), 1799-1883

Publisher:

Dépo?t de Général de la Guerre (Paris)

Provider:

University of Minnesota

Resource Class:

Maps

Temporal Coverage:

1854

Date Issued:

1854

Spatial Coverage:

Egypt and Africa

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Public

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