Syria's borders in relation to late Ottoman provinces
Crude mapmaking and hundred year echoes
I was reading Seda Altuğ’s essay “The Turkish-Syrian Border and Politics of Difference in Turkey and Syria (1921–1939)” in the anthology Syria: Borders, Boundaries, and the State and wanted to see what the contemporary Syrian border looked like over the late Ottoman vilayet borders. What resulted is these two crudely drawn maps I made using slightly dif…
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