The earliest printed map of Greater #Kurdistan#, made in 1892 (130 years ago) by a British mapmaker and diplomat and published in a Journal in 1894, has been once again republished.
It is worth mentioning that this map was published under a title of The Earliest printed map specifically of Kurdistan in 1894. The Printed Map is based upon the firsthand exploration of Captain F.R.Munsell. who visited the region as British spy in the summer of 1892.
The map of the Greater Kurdistan, which was issued by Maunsell in 1892, is wider to some extent than the map that the Kurdish researchers have relied on yet, and published in other books and documents.
The map covers what today is a hotly contested and unstable multi-national border region consisting of a mountainous region embracing parts of eastern Turkey, Armenia, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, northwestern Iran.
This map is a reduction of a larger format map issued by Captain Maunsell for government use in the same year he went on a first great voyage through Kurdistan. The present example map was published later in the 1894 issue of the Geographical Journal.
Francis Richard Maunsell was born on 14 February 1861 in Limberick. He studied at Cheltenham College and attended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Maunsell was a British diplomat, hobbyist archeologist, mapmaker, army officer, and intelligence operative active in the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Note: The map and the information used in this report taken from Geographicus Website.[1]