1854 Theatre de la Guerre Carte de la Turquie d'Europe et d'Asia

This interesting and informative folding pocket map was drawn up by Pierre Tardieu and printed by Lemercier in Paris in 1854. It depicts the territories involved in the Crimean War, which lasted from October 1853 through February 1856. The map includes the entire theatre of the war, from Ottoman territories in Europe to the Crimean region and southern Russia. An inset in the upper right depicts the ancient city of Constantinople in some detail, including surviving vestiges of earlier empires. Strategically located, the ancient city has long controlled the lengthy maritime corridor connecting the Black and Mediterranean Seas. Other territories delineated in the map include southeastern Europe as far west as Greece, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Transylvania, Bessarabia, Wallachia, and the lower part of the boot of Italy. Anatolia is depicted in its entirety, and the many countries bordering the Black Sea are topographically detailed. The Levant as far south as Baalbek in modern