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Description: Map showing the railway and border between Turkey and Syria at Kobani

TitleMap showing the railway and border between Turkey and Syria at Kobani

Creator nameBarbero, JamesTinker, Blair

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator roleMapmaker

Creation dateUnknown

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

MaterialsUnknown

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LocationUniversity of Rochester, River Campus Libraries, Rochester, New York

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsRailroadsTurkey--Maps

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Introduction

Peter H. Christensen

Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure

~Infrastructures make empires. The economic, social, and cultural systems of empires are guided by and given form and purpose through canals, bridges, tunnels, ports, and, perhaps most importantly, railways. It is no coincidence that infrastructures are often likened to the veins, nodes, and...

Author

Peter H. Christensen

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-8

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00224.001

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20716&redirecttoanchor=59249

Chapter subject tags:Railroads--Design and constructionTurkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918MulticulturalismArchitecture, OttomanGeography

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