Historic Map : Santini Antique Map of Persia, Arabia and Turkey, 1778, Vintage Wall Art

This is Paolo Santini's spectacular 1778 map of the Persia, Arabia and Turkey or the Ottoman Empire. Covers the Empire at its height, with territory spanning from the Black Sea to the southernmost extension of Arabia and west, inclusive of Persia, as far as the Mongol Empire of India. Includes the modern day nations of Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, and Greece.

Based on an earlier map by Vaugondy, the map employs all of the latest geographical information of the time incorporating both French and transliterations Arabic place names. This map offers splendid detail throughout inclusive of undersea shoals and reefs in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, and historical sites. A highly decorative title cartouche showing an Ottoman prince appears in the lower left quadrant. Five distance scales are in the lower right.

This map was redrawn by Paolo Santini from an earlier map by Robert de Vaugondy and was published in the 1784 issue of his Atlas Universel Dressee sur les Meilleures Cartes Modernes.