The oldest printed map of "Greater Kurdistan" was drawn 130 years ago

ARK News… The Kurdistan website published a picture of the oldest printed map of “Greater Kurdistan” drawn by the British officer, diplomat, and cartographer Captain F. R. Maunsell, who visited the region as a British spy in the summer of 1892.

According to the BassNews website, this map was published in 1894, and it is based on the direct explorations of Captain F. R. Munsell. The map covers parts of Greater Kurdistan in Turkey, Iraq, northeastern Syria, northwestern Iran, and present-day Armenia.

The Kurdistan source confirmed that the map drawn by Captain F. R. Munsell is the most comprehensive and largest of all those relied upon or published by Kurdish researchers.

This map is the product of Maunsell's first major journey through Kurdistan which he made during his journey, before returning again in 1901, by which time he had become a colonel, compiling a more detailed study of the region and publishing additional maps.

Maunsell lived an itinerant life, traveling from place to place throughout Kurdistan, armed with a 6-inch Hadley, a telescope, a semi-chronometer, and two barometers, and produced the most accurate map of Kurdistan.

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