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Tübingen Atlas of the Near Middle East
TAVOTübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients
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TAVO - Masterpiece of German Scholarly Work

• Largest cartographical work on the Middle East
  ever

- 30 years of work at University of Tübingen
(Germany)
- More than 250 scholars have contributed
- Almost 400 maps on 295 single sheets (each 72 x
50 cm)

• Bilingual publication in German and English

• Hardcover Edition 53 kgs

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Part A Geography Cultural Anthropology

• I Relief, Hydrology, and Settlement
• II Geology
• III Geomorphology
• IV Climate
• V Hydrogeography
• VII Natural Regions
• VIII Population
• IX Settlement
• X Economy and Communication

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A IX 9 Sanaa
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A X 12 Pastoral Migration Systems
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Part B History

• I Stone Age
• II Early and Middle Bronze Ag
• III Second Half of the 2nd Mill. B.C.
• IV The 1st Millenium B.C. - Alexander the Great
• V Hellenism and the Roman Period
• VI Late Antiquity
• VII The Expansion of Islam up to
• the Time of the First Crusade (1096)
• VIII From the Crusader Period up to 1510
• IX The Ottoman Period up to 1918
• X The Period since the First World War
• S Historical maps

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B IV Inhaltsverz
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B IV 7 Jerusalem gesamt
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B IV 7 Detail
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Maps are accessible through a three volume index.
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The Atlas is now available in three different
editions
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Archive Edition
Archive Edition Loose Maps in two cloth bound
boxes
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Portfolio Edition
Portfolio Edition Seven Volumes
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Hardcover Edition
New Hardcover Edition Twelve Volumes
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Map Cabinet
TAVO Map Cabinet
Following Napoléons famous Déscription de
lÉgypte we have tailor made a map cabinet for
the Tübingen Atlas. Details can be varied
according to your needs. The ideal furniture for
transportation, storage and reading.
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... the Atlas of the Middle East.For any library
in the Middle East a MUST.