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Number: 3812
Continent: Africa
Region: North
Place Names: Suez, Egypt, Sinai, Port Said
Year of Origin: 1870 (estimated)
Title: Basso-Egitto Canale Artificiale di Suez Dedicato a Sua Majesta Vittorio Emanuele II Re d'Italia.
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Language: Italian
Publish Origin: Florence
Height: 28.9
Width: 44.3
Units: centimeters
Size Class.: Medium
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Color Type: Full Color
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Publisher: Cesare Vimercati
 Litografia Toscana
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Northernmost Latitude: 31.65
Southernmost Latitude: 29.8
Westernmost Longitude: 29.75
Easternmost Longitude: 32.7
Measurement Notes: modern Greenwich estimates
Notes: [Altea-Massimo source] Chromolithograph 'Bird's Eye view of Nile delta and Suez Canal; A map-view from above the Sinai Peninsula looking west across Egypt to Cairo and Alexandria, highlighting the route of the new Suez Canal, roads, the Hajj route from Cairo to Suez and railways. The later includes the Zagazig to Suez route, opened 1868, but not the line to Damietta, opened 1869.
Last updated: Nov 18, 2020