Libraries

DIGITAL RESOURCES

• Digital Silk Road Project: historical map collection (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) (historical Silk Road maps)
• Perry-Castañeda Map Collection University of Texas Libraries (primarily 20th-century maps produced by the Central Intelligence Agency, USA):
  Afghanistan | Asia | Russia & Former Soviet Republics
• Silk Road Seattle: Maps (a small map collection showing empires and travellers' routes for historical Eurasia)
• United Nations Cartographic Section (several detailed, clear maps organized by modern country and region [select under "General Maps"])
• Vostochnaia Literatura (includes selected maps for parts of Central Eurasia)
  Asia Minor:
• Kitab-i bahriye of Piri Reis (17th-century copy of the atlas created by the great Ottoman explorer--click on the image for access; manuscript held by The Walters Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
• Medieval Islamic views of the cosmos: The book of curiosities (online 12/13th c. manuscript Kitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn held by the Bodleian Library)
• Ottoman atlas (digitized maps from a late-Ottoman atlas [1325/1907], the Memalik-i Mahruse-i Åžahaneye Mahsus Mükemmel ve Mufassal Atlas; explanatory material in Japanese)
• Premodern Ottoman Geographical Mapping (see Chapters 10-12; online text of Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies, edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward, University of Chicago, 1992)
  Tibet:
• China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) (includes historical maps of Tibet)
• A Guide to the Use of Chinese Gazetteers for Amdo (PDF document; detailed, annotated bibliography of gazetteers of Amdo compiled by Gray Tuttle, Columbia University Libraries)
• Maps of Greater Tibet (see Chapter 15 by Joseph E. Schwartzberg; in Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies, edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward, University of Chicago, 1994)
• Tibet from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library
• Tibet Map Institute (pre-1950 maps of Tibet)
  Mongolia:
• Historical Mongolian Maps (Berlin collection of Mongolian manuscript maps from the late Qing period)
• Old Mongolian manuscript maps
• Mapping Millitant Organizations (The Mapping Militants Project identifies patterns in the evolution of militant organizations in specified conflict theatres and provides interactive visual representations of these relationships.)

OTHER RESOURCES

• Wikimapia (Google satellite images of the world with user-provided descriptions)

SELECTED PRINT ATLASES & GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE IN IUB LIBRARIES

• Arabskaia geograficheskaia literatura (volume 4 of author's collected works) (Ignatii IUlianovich Krachkovskii, 1957). PJ6025 .K88 v. 4 Wells
• Atlas Tartarica (Rafael’ S. KHakimov, 2005). DK511 .T17 A84 2005 Wells (Slavic Reference)
• Bugd Nairamdakh Mongol Ard Uls: undesnii atlas (BNMAU-yn Shinzhlekh Ukhaany Akademi, et al., 1990). G2329.3 .B57 1990 Auxiliary Library Facility
• General maps of Persia, 1477-1925 (Cyrus Alai, 2005). G2256 .S1 A5 2005 Wells
• An historical atlas of Central Asia (Yuri Bregel, 2003). G2202.21 .S1 B7 2003 Wells (Reference)
• An historical atlas of Islam, 2nd revised ed. (Hugh Kennedy, ed., 2002). G1786 .S1 H6 2002 Wells (Reference)
• The history of cartography (J.B. Harley and David Woodward, ed., 1987-2003); see especially, v. 2, book 1: Cartography in the traditional Islamic and South Asian societies GA201 .H53 1987 v. 2 bk 1 Auxiliary Library Facility
• Istoriko-kul’turnyi atlas Buriatii (N.L. ZHukovskaia, 2001). G2175.51 .E1 I88 2001 Wells (Slavic Reference) and Auxiliary Library Facility
• Mathematical geography and cartography in Islam and their continuation in the Occident, v.1-3 (Fuat Sezgin, 2000-2007). Z7052 .S522132 Wells [German original: Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, v. 10-12. Z7052 .S522 Wells]
• Mongol'skaia Narodnaia Respublika: natsional'nyĭ atlas (SH. TSegmid and V.V. Vorob’ev, 1990). G2329.3 .M66 1990 Wells (Oversized)
• Osmanlı coğrafya literatürü tarihi = History of geographical literature during the Islamic period (Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, ed., 2000). G76.5 .T87 O76 2000 v. 1-2 Wells
• Sibir’: atlas Aziatskoi Rossii (P.A. Terskii et al., 2007). G2170 .S53 2007 Wells (Slavic Reference)
• Zhongguo li shi di tu ji [Historical atlas of China], v.1-8 (Qixiang Tan, ed., 1982-1987). G2306 .S1 C47 Wells (East Asian Reference)
• Zhonghua min guo di tu ji [National atlas of China] (various editions) (Qiyun Zhang), v.2: Hsitsang (Tibet), Sinkiang and Mongolia. G2305 .C2 1963 Auxiliary Library Facility [English edition: G2305 .C45 1961 Wells (Oversize)]