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This collage depicts the Caspian Sea as per our lens of connectivity through the deployment of historical images, poems, and mapping.

This map of the Caspian was created by Guillaume Delised and was based on recent information collected by Carl Vanverden in 1719, 1720 and 1721 at the request of tsar Peter I. The first map of the Caspian based on relatively accurate observations of…

1 map, hand colored. 44 x 59 cm. Prime meridian: Ferro. This map Appears in G. Delisle's "Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde."
(Scale ca. 1:3,150,00)

An early depiction of the Russian Empire by cartographer Isaac Maasa. Whether due to lack of information or assumptions about the size of other empires, this depiction of the Caspian Sea clearly privileges the Russian end of it. Astrkahan and the…

This image shows the road networks featured in Abraham Maas's map "Nova Maris Caspii" as they radiate south along the Caspian from Astrakhan and into the Caucasus.

1 map, hand colored; 47 x 57 cm.
Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Covers portions of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran.
Includes notes and illustrations. "Cum Priv. S. C. M."

This early map of the Caspian was published by Reiner Ottens in his appears in his Atlas maior (1720). This publication is primarily in Latin but contains notes in Dutch as well as place names in Greek, Russian, Persian, Arabic, and Turkish (in Latin…

1 map, hand colored, 47 x 57 cm.
Depth shown by surroundings. Oriented with North to the left. Colored in outline. Includes illustrations.
Appears in: Atlas maior cum generales omnium totius orbis regnorum rerumpubi, atque insularum tum…

Sea as Land: Infrastructure, Politics and Oil in the Caspian Sea

This French map of the Russian Empire features the northern half of the Caspian Sea, as well as sites of industry and political borders.