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LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1885 English

The city of Herat and the adjoining region of Badghis were part of the territory to which the Qajar dynasty of Persia was forced to relinquish its claims following the …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1885 French

L'Afghanistan: les Russes aux portes de l'Inde (Afghanistan: The Russians at the gates of India) is a comprehensive analysis of Anglo-Russian rivalry in Central Asia in the 19th century. The …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1885 German

Ivan Lavrovich Iavorskii (1853-circa 1920) was a Russian physician who in 1878-79 accompanied an imperial Russian embassy to Afghanistan, the goal of which was to establish a Russian ambassador in …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1885 English

Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828-1906) was a British author and journalist who over a long career worked in a wide range of genres, producing dramatic pieces, fiction, and serious journalism. In …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1885 Russian

Romanized.


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1885 English

In the early 1880s, Great Britain (which at that time effectively controlled the foreign policy of Afghanistan) and the Russian Empire opened negotiations to define the northern border of Afghanistan. …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1885 English

Scale 1:2,027,520; 1 in. = 32 miles. Relief shown by hachures. LC copy annotated in orange, red, green, and yellow ink. Shows western half of Afghanistan, "Russian Dominions," "Persia," and …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1885 English

Relief shown in hachures. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. At head of sheet: Rand McNally & Co.'s map of Asia and Europe. Available also through the Library of Congress web site …


LC: Library of Congress · 1885 English

Also available in digital form.


LC: Library of Congress · 1885 English

Also available in digital form.