Seeräuberküste

[Middle East - map]. [Map of the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East].

€ 2.500,00

Map of the Middle East issued during World War II, originating from a special issue of the German weekly newspaper "Die Post". One sheet of a two-sheet map of the Mediterranean and its surroundings, encompassing Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, including a boundary between Western Saudi Arabia and the Eastern Province. The present-day United Arab Emirates are marked "Seeräuberküste" (a literal German translation of "pirate coast"), with Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Dubai identified. The map further details Sinai, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan, French West Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Tripolitania and Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Darfur and Ethiopia, with Tajikistan in the upper right corner.

Includes an index panel listing cities in alphabetical order to the right.