'Caucasus Boundaries'

Content

Title taken from manuscript annotation on verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ; recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. bears no title.

Printed sheet depicting disputed territories in the Caucasus, particularly Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and southern Russia. Portrays hydrology, railways, settlements, place names, and international and internal boundaries; also depicts areas under dispute and three successive positions of the 'Denekin Demarkation Line'.

The sheet bears the imprints '9172.28700.135.' and 'Malby & Sons, Lith.'

Manuscript additions portray relief by hachures Lines drawn on a map to indicate the direction and steepness of slope. , amendment to the spelling of 'Denekin' to the more standard 'Denikin', and revision to the wording in the key.

An attached folio (f 40a. Manuscript: ink on paper; 104 x 81mm) bears the note 'This map will be attached to the [?]print.'

Extent and format

1 map sheet and 1 folio

Area map covers

Map loading...

Scale

Scale approximately 1:2,000,000

Scale designator

Horizontal

Orientation

North

Degree coordinates

Top-left: 44° 0' 0" N, 39° 0' 0" E
Top-right: 44° 0' 0" N, 50° 31' 59.88" E
Bottom-left: 38° 12' 0" N, 39° 0' 0" E
Bottom-right: 38° 12' 0" N, 50° 31' 59.88" E

It is part of

Maps and Associated Documents Relating to the Post-war Realignment of Boundaries in the Former Ottoman Empire

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Ref: Mss Eur F112/570

Physical characteristics

Materials: Printed in colour, with manuscript additions in ink and pencil

Dimensions: 306 x 470mm, on sheet 345 x 510mm

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Map

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Mss Eur F112/570, ff 40-40a

History of this record

Date(s)

1919 (CE, Gregorian)

Related material

Related primary sources

An account of Anton Denikin's military campaign in the Caucasus, including the background to the Denikin Line, is given in:

• James Ramsey Ullman, Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921, Volume 2: Britain and the Russian Civil War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968), pp. 225-26 filed at W33/0729 and online at https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zDmNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=denekin+demarcation+line&source=bl&ots=3XyrWS3ev2&sig=ACfU3U3M3aCQQW4cdokwScIpHw31RDo86g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB767nkM_nAhXYWRUIHXlOAYcQ6AEwA3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=denekin%20demarcation%20line&f=false [accessed 14 February 2020]

Places

CaucasusArmeniaAzerbaijanGeorgiaRussia

People & organisations

Malby & Sons

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'Caucasus Boundaries', British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F112/570, ff 40-40a, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100140102009.0x000003> [accessed 19 June 2026]

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