Afternoon Map: Ottoman Map of North America. Ottoman Map of North America (Source: BOA, MF-VRK 49/25): for a full-sized image, click here Given that American students are not known for their knowledge of geography, even if this very late Ottoman (1919/1920) map of North America from the education ministry will seem an inadequate representation of the US and its neighbors, it might well do some good in today's classrooms at the very least as a historical document.
Afternoon Map: Intellectuals Per Capita in Ottoman Anatolia. Nick Danforth, Georgetown University In what was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable academic endeavors of 1940, Professor Dr.
Sevket Aziz Kansu, the Dean of the Faculty of Languages, History and Geography at the University of Ankara, set out to tabulate and map the number of Ottoman intellectuals produced per capita in each of the major regions of Anatolia. He did so using 1927 census data, Bursali Mehmet Tahir's "Ottoman Authors," 906 index cards - classified according to birthplace, and a set of 9 geographic regions that he just kind of made up. The surprising results, after the jump.
Though widely mocked, the Black Sea region had indeed produced more intellectuals per capita than any other part of Turkey. Combining data from a 1937 anthropometric enquiry made into 59,728 Turkish men and women by the Bureau of Statistic, he obtained average physical characteristics for each of his "intellectual regions. " Cartography 101 - You are Here. A Tale of Meridians. Moving south by train from Prague via Salzburg, past Austrian Alps that shine like gods in the afternoon sun, then in darkness through solid rock under mountain borders, the fluorescent tube lighting of the long train tunnels sweeping the interior of my compartment like a photocopier, I at long last descended to the port city of Trieste, on a seaside strip of Italian land, cupped within Slovenian mountains.
The story of Trieste, founded by Illyrians, ruled by Rome, then Byzantium, then enduring conflict with the Most Serene Venetian Republic and then, unsteadily, coming under the Hapsburgs, Napoleon, or intermittently finding purchase as a free city state, finally gives us today an Italian city braided also with thick Slavic and Germanic strands. James Joyce made it his home for many years, and his friendship with Italo Svevo helped make the latter a treasured voice in Italian literature.
Each is memorialized in his own city landmark. London and Paris It is special, but not unique. Prague. 595 - It’s Always Chile in Norway: the Five Types of Territorial Morphology. Do Norwegians feel curiously at home in Chile, and vice versa?
Do South Africans have a strange affinity with Italians? And Filipinos with Maldivians? They should, at least if they’re map nerds: each lives in a country with a territorial morphology that closely resembles the other’s. Although they’re on opposite sides of the globe Chile and Norway are each other’s type, morphologically speaking: elongated to the extreme. From east to west, Chile on average is just 150 miles (240 km) wide, which is the distance from London to Manchester, or New York to Baltimore. Norway is much smaller than Chile, but still the longest country in Europe. South Africa and Italy? ‘Perforated’ is perhaps the second-most recognisable of the 5 types of territorial morphology devised by political geographers, after ‘elongated’.
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Sometimes, some files do not automatically create a profile! How to make a topographic profile? Reset Find your area of interest on the map Select the cursor min. 2 points (max. 300) Ready – site profile will be generated in seconds Embed the chart on your site Copy and save the link to the chart Add the route to the map Program Geocontext-Profiler allows you to make topographic profiles anywhere on Earth in the seabed and ocean floor. Can be widely used: in the natural sciences (geomorphology, hydrography) for the education and tourism – hiking route planning, bicycle, car. Within the program, you can find some advanced options that allow you to create a profile along the road, bicycle and pedestrian paths, and measuring the slope angle.
For educational purposes several pre-programmed profiles of interesting geographic features, such as: the highest mountain or the largest ocean depths of Earth. Video: Google Maps.