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This is a scarce separate-issue 1826 map of European Turkey by C. F. Weiland. It covers Greece and the Balkans from Romania to Crete and includes the modern day nations of Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Moldova. It depicts the European lands claimed by the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century. Various important cities, rivers, lakes, islands, mountains and other topographic features.
As this map was being drawn, the Greek people were in the midst of a bloody war for independence against their Ottoman Turkish overlords. With the help their European allies in Russia, United Kingdom, and France, the Greek revolutionaries finally threw off the Ottoman yolk in 1832.
This map was created by C. F. Weiland and published by the Weimar Geographical Institute.