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1918 map of the Caucasus by the British Army

8th Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. Field Survey Co. · Wikimedia Commons, 1918

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A 1918 map of the Caucasus produced by the British Army's Royal Engineers, with 1919 borders drawn in.

This record is a Caucasus map produced in 1918 by the British Army's 8th Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, with 1919 borders added, available via Wikimedia Commons. It provides a contemporary topographic and political reference for the theatre of the Caucasus Army of Islam's summer 1918 campaign (the Ganja-Goychay-Baku axis and the wider South Caucasus). As British military cartography, it also reflects the perspective of Allied forces such as Dunsterforce present in the region at the time.

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1918 map of the Caucasus by the British Army, with 1919 borders drawn in.

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