Sheet 2 Middle East. Early Holocene Vegetation (c. 8000 B.P.)
Sheet 3 Middle East. Vegetation in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Examples: Southern Levant, Northwestern Anatolia, Northwestern Zagros
Sheet 4 Middle Taurus (Turkey). Vegetation
Sheet 5 Southern Caspian Lowlands and Elburz Mountains (Iran). Vegetation
Sheet 6 Central Zagros Mountains (Iran). Vegetation
Sheet 7 Central Hindu Kush (Afghanistan). Vegetation
Sheet 8 Southern Levant (Israel and Adjacent Areas). Vegetation
Sheet 9 Central Saudi Arabia. Vegetation
Sheet 10 Vegetation. Examples [4 sheets]
Sheet 10.1-10.2 Central Anatolia (Turkey). Vegetation around Tuz Golu / Maharlu Basin near Siraz (Iran). Central area. Vegetation
Sheet 10.3-10.4 Middle Taurus (Turkey). High mountain regions of the Aladaglari. Vegetation / Central Hindu Kush / Hindukus (Afghanistan). Alpine Vegetation of Darra-yi Goham
Sheet 10.5-10.6 Elburz Mountains (Iran). Eastern Border of the Caspian Forests / Hindu Kush Southeastern Slopes (Afghanistan). Western Border of the Monsoon Forests
Sheet 10.7-10.8a&b Persian Gulf Coast. Mangrove / Gulf of 'Aqaba. Mangroves and Littoral Salt Marshes / Gulf of Oman. Mangroves and Littoral Salt Marshes
Sheet 11 Middle East. Terrestrial Zoogeography
Sheet 12 Levant. Freshwater Fauna
Sheet 13 Distribution of Selected Large Vertebrates and Their Decline in Historical Times: Large Cats (Genus Panthera) / Elephants (Proboscoidea) / Aquatic Mammals and Reptiles
Sheet 8 Southern Levant. Land Utilization in the 2nd Half of the 16th Century
Sheet 9 Southern Levant. Land Utilization c. 1880
Sheet 10 Land Use. Examples [3 sheets]
Sheet 10.1-10.3 Tea cultivation in the Black Sea coastal area (Ciftekavak / Province Rize) / Subsistence agriculture in the high plateaus of Northern Yemen (al Qasim / Province San'a') / Special cultivation in the Mediterranean coastal area (Tabarga / Lebanon)
Sheet 12.1-12.2 Zagros (Iran). Mountain Nomadism and sedentarization of the Bahtiyari / Zagros (Iran). Mountain Nomadism and sedentarization of the Qasqai
Sheet 12.3-12.4 al-Gazira (Iraq). Sedentarization of Nomads / Pontic Mountains (Turkey). Alpine Farming in the District of Caykara, Province of Trabzon.
Sheet 12.5 South-East Arabia. Traditional Patterns and Modern Change in the Nomadic Living Area
Sheet 12.6 Gab (Syria). Mobile Shepherds
Sheet 12.7 Afghanistan. Nomadism and Semi-Nomadism
Sheet 13 Middle East. Industry and Mining
Sheet 15 Iran. Industry
Sheet 16 Arabian-Persian Gulf. Oil Industry
Sheet 17 Saudi Arabia. Oil Industry
Sheet 18 Middle East. Traffic [2 sheets]
Sheet 18.1 Development of Land and Sea Traffic Routes
Sheet 18.2 Air Transport
Sheet 19 Middle East. Tourism
Sheet 20 Middle East. Foreign Trade.
PART B. HISTORY [174 sheets]
PART B I. STONE AGE [19 sheets]
Sheet 1 Middle East. Lower Paleolithic
Sheet 2 Middle East. Middle Paleolithic
Sheet 3 Lower and Middle Paleolithic. Examples: Nahr al-Kabir Valley (Syria) / Ankara Area (Turkey) / Ramot Menasse and Surroundings (Israel) / an-Nabk and Surroundings (Syria)
Sheet 4 Middle East. Upper Paleolithic
Sheet 5 Middle East. Epipalaeolithic and Protoneolithic
Sheet 6 Middle East. Protoneolithic Period
Sheet 7 Levant. Examples for the Upper- and Epipalaeolithic. Sites on the Coastal Plain of Israel / Sites around Beirut / Sites in Judaea
Sheet 8 Late Hunters and Gatherers of the Middle East. Epipalaeolithic. Examples [...] [3 sheets]
Sheet 8.1-8.2 Beldibi and Belbasi (Antalya, Turkey). Sites of the Late Epipalaeolithic [...] / Gar-e Kamarband (Belt-Cave) and Ali Tappe. Sites of the Middle to Late Epipalaeolithic [...]
Sheet 8.4 Stone Age Settlements on the Coast of Ra's al-Hamra (Masqat, Oman)
Sheet 9 Levant. Epipalaeolithic and Protoneolithic
Sheet 11 Middle East. Aceramic Neolithic
Sheet 12 Middle East. Pottery Neolithic
Sheet 13 Egypt. Neolithic
Sheet 14 Neolithic. Regional Site Evidence and Recent Land Use: Southeastern Taurus, Middle Euphrates and Palmyra Basin / Singar Area / Central Zagros and Huzestan
Sheet 15 Middle East. Neolithic. Examples of the Ecological Settings of Sites: Petra Region (Jordan) / Catal Huyuk and Can Hassan III. Early Agricultural Settlement of the Konya Basin [...] (Turkey)
Sheet 16 Mesopotamia. Chalcolithic
Sheet 17 Mesopotamia at the Outset of Urbanization
Sheet 18 The Iranian Highlands in the Chalcolithic Era.
PART B II. EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE [20 sheets]
Sheet 1 Egypt in the Old Kingdom
Sheet 2 Egypt during the First Intermediate Period
Sheet 3 Egypt in the Middle Kingdom
Sheet 4 Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period
Sheet 5&6 Nubia. A-Group and the Old Kingdom / Nubia. Middle Kingdom, C-Group and Kerma
Sheet 7 Mesopotamia. Early Dynastic Period
Sheet 8 Mesopotamia. Akkade- and Ur III-Time: The Empire of Akkade / The Empire of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur
Sheet 9 Babylonia. Akkade- and Ur III-Time: Settlement / Political organisation of the Ur III Empire
Sheet 10 Southern Levant Bronze Age [4 sheets]
Sheet 10.1 Early Bronze Age
Sheet 10.2 Transition from the Early Bronze Age to the Middle Bronze Age
Sheet 10.3 Middle Bronze Age
Sheet 10.4 Late Bronze Age
Sheet 11 Sinai and Negev. Bronze Age [2 sheets]
Sheet 11.1-11.2 Early Bronze Age / Late Bronze Age
Sheet 11.3 Transition from the Early Bronze Age to the Middle Bronze Age
Sheet 12 Mesopotamia in the Old Babylonian Period [2 sheets]
Sheet 12.1 Settlement
Sheet 12.2 Mesopotamia in Old Babylonian Time
Sheet 13 Asia Minor. Early Bronze Age [E & W sheets]
Sheet 14 Asia Minor. Middle Bronze Age
Sheet 15 The Iranian Highland in the Early Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age (Early History)
PART B III. THE SECOND HALF OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C. [8 sheets]
Sheet 1 Egypt in the New Kingdom [N & S sheets]
Sheet 2 Nubia. The New Kingdom and the Late Period before the Rise of Napata
Sheet 3 Palestine and Syria at the Time of the Egyptian-Hittite Rule
Sheet 4&5 Egypt and the Levant. Aegean Imports in the 2nd Millennium B.C.
Sheet 6 Asia Minor. The Hittite Empire from the 14th to the 13th Century B.C.
Sheet 7 Babylonia and Assyria in the Second Half of the Second Millennium B.C.
Sheet 8 The Iranian Highland. Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age.
PART B IV. THE FIRST MILLENNIUM B.C. DOWN TO THE TIME OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT [25 sheets]
Sheet 1 Egypt in the end of the epoch (21st to so-called 31st dynasty)
Sheet 2 Nile Delta (Egypt). Libyan Chiefdoms
Sheet 3 Nubia and Sudan. From the 25th Dynasty to Ptolemaic - Roman Times [N & S sheets]
Sheet 4 Iberian Peninsula. Egyptian and Egyptianized Finds
Sheet 5 Palestine. Settlement Areas of the Israelites and Davidic Empire
Sheet 6 Palestine. Iron Age Settlements (ca.1200-550 B.C.) The Kingdoms of Judah and Israel [N & S sheets]
Sheet 7 Jerusalem. Architectural Development [3 sheets]
Sheet Maps I&II: From the Early Bronze Age to the Destruction by Nebukadnezar II (3100 - 587 / 586 B.C.) / From the Re-erection in the Persian Period to the Destruction by Titus (539 B.C. - 70 A.D.)
Sheet Map III: From the Re-erection in the Hadrianic Period to the Eve of the Crusades (117 - 1099 A.D.)
Sheet Map IV: From the Arrival of the Crusaders to the Early Ottoman Period (1099 - ca. 1750 A.D.)
Sheet 8 Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia around 700 B.C.
Sheet 9 Asia Minor from the 12th to 6th Century B.C. Settlements, Sanctuaries, Finds [2 sheets]
Sheet 9.1 The Period from c. 1200 to 700 B.C.
Sheet 9.2 The Period from c. 700 to 500 B.C.
Sheet 10 Assyria until 800 B.C.
Sheet 11 The Elamite Empires
Sheet 12 Eastern Asia Minor. The Empire of Urartu (9th to 7th Century B.C.)
Sheet 13 The Neoassyrian Empire (720 - 612 B.C.) and the Neobabylonian Empire (612 - 539 B.C.)
Sheet 14-16 Syria and Palestine before the Annexation by Assyria (732 B.C.) / Palestine under the Assyrians (after 732 B.C.) / Palestine under the Babylonians and Persians (587 - 332 B.C.)
Sheet 17&18 Examples of Ancient Near-Eastern Cities. Uruk / Examples of Ancient Near-Eastern Cities. Ur
Sheet 19 Examples of Ancient Near-Eastern Cities. Babylon during the Neo-Babylonian Empire
Sheet 20 Examples of Ancient Near-Eastern Cities. Residences of the Assyrian empire
Sheet 21 Examples of Ancient Near-Eastern Cities. Residences of the Assyrian empire. Assur
Sheet 22 Iran in the Achaemednid Age (6th to 4th Century B.C.)
Sheet 23 Eastern Mediterranean. The Western Part of the Persian Empire from Cyrus to Xerxes (547 - 479/8 B.C.)
PART B V. THE HELLENISM AND ROMAN PERIODS [21 sheets]
Sheet 1 Middle East. The Empire of Alexander the Great (336 - 323 B.C.)
Sheet 2 Middle East. Empires of the Diadochi (about 303 B.C.)
Sheet 3 Middle East. The Hellenistic States of the 3rd Century B.C.
Sheet 4 Middle East. The Hellenistic States of the 2nd Century B.C.
Sheet 5 Eastern Mediterranean. & Mesopotamia. Economy, Cults and Education in the Period of Hellenism (330 - 133 B.C.)
Sheet 6 Asia Minor and the Black Sea Area. The Epoch of Mithradates the Great (121 - 63 B.C.)
Sheet 7 Eastern Mediterranean. & Mesopotamia. The Reorganization of the Orient from Pompey to Augustus (67 B.C. - 14 A.D.)
Sheet 9 Eastern Mediterranean. & Mesopotamia. From Antoninus Pius until the End of the Parthian Empire (138 - 224 A.D.)
Sheet 11 Middle East. Romans and Sasanids during the Imperial Crisis (224 - 284 A.D.)
Sheet 12 Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia. The Time of the Imperial Crisis (235 - 284 A.D.)
Sheet 13 The Eastern Frontier of the Roman Empire (1st - 5th Cent. A.D.)
Sheet 15 Asia Minor and Syria. Examples of the History of Settlement in Graeco-Roman Times [2 sheets]
Sheet 15.1 Northern Levant. The Nucleus of the Seleucid Empire (3rd - 1st Century B.C.)
Sheet 15.2 Lycia and Pamphylia..
Sheet 16 Syria and Palestine during Hellenistic Times: The Syrian Wars (280 - 145 B.C.) / The Maccabees and the Hasmoneans (167 - 37 B.C.)
Sheet 17 Palestine under Roman Predominance: Herod the Great and the Procurators (40 B.C. - 70 A.D.) / The Roman Provinces Palaestina and Arabia (70 - 305 A.D.)
Sheet 18 Palestine. Settlements in Graeco-Roman Times (ca. 300 B.C. - 300 A.D.) (northern part)
Sheet 18 Palestine. Settlements in Graeco-Roman Times (ca. 300 B.C. - 300 A.D.) (southern part)
Sheet 19 Palestine. Settlements according to Flavius Josephus
Sheet 21 Egypt in the Hellenistic - Roman Period
Sheet 22 North-East Africa and Arabian Peninsula. States and Peoples (4th - 1st Century B.C.)
PART B VI. LATE ANTIQUITY [14 sheets]
Sheet 1 Eastern Mediterranean. & Mesopotamia. The Reorganization of the Orient from Diocletian to Constantine (284 - 337 A.D.)
Sheet 2 Eastern Mediterranean. & Mesopotamia. Christianity until the Council of Nicea (325 A.D.)
Sheet 3 The Sassanid Empire
Sheet 4 Eastern Mediterranean. & Mesopotamia. Late Roman Period (337 - 527 A.D.)
Sheet 5-7 Eastern Mediterranean. The early Byzantine Empire (527 - 563 A.D.) / Caucasus and Mesopotamia. Byzantines and Persians (581 - 628 A.D.) / The Middle East during the Byzantine - Persian Conflict (6th - 7th Century A.D.)
Sheet 8 Asia Minor. The Byzantine Empire (7th - 9th Century A.D.)
Sheet 10 Palestine in the Late Roman-Byzantine Period (ca 300 - 640 A.D.) [N & S sheets]
Sheet 11 Middle East. Christianity in the Late Antiquity (4th - 7th Century)
Sheet 12 Asia Minor. Ecclesiastical Organization of the Byzantine Empire (4th - 15th Century)
Sheet 14 Armenia and Georgia. Christianity and Territorial Development from the 4th to the 7th Century
Sheet 15 Egypt. Christianity up to the Arab Conquest (up to the 7th Century)
Sheet 16&17 Israel according to the Rabbinical Literature / Israel. Synagogues, Torah Schools, and Law Courts (1st to the 7th Century)
Sheet 18 The Jewish Diaspora until the 7th Century A.D.
PART B VII. THE EXPANSION OF ISLAM UP TO THE TIME OF THE FIRST CRUSADE (1096) [21 sheets]
Sheet 1 Islamic Arabia until the Death of the Prophet (632 / 11 h)
Sheet 2 The Islamic Empire under the First Four Caliphs (632 - 661 A.C. / 11 - 40 h)
Sheet 3 The Islamic Empire under 'Abdalmalik (685 - 705 A.D. / 66 - 85 h) [2 sheets]
Sheet 3.1 The Political and Military Situation in the Second Civil War from the summer of 684 till the end of 685
Sheet 3.2 The Consolidation of the Umayyad Empire
Sheet 4&5 The Umayyad Empire / The 'Abbasids and the Local Dynasties around 1000 A.C.
Sheet 6 The Central Regions of the 'Abbasid Empire in the 10th Century A.D.
Sheet 7 The Islamic Law Schools up to the End of the Samanid Dynasty (till 999)
Sheet 8 The Eastern Part of the 'Abbasid Empire: Samanids and Ghaznavids between the 9th and 11th Century A.D.
Sheet 9 The empire of the Great Salguqs until the Death of Maliksah (485 h/1092 A.C.) [E & W sheets]
Sheet 10 Asia Minor in the 12th and Early 13th Century
Sheet 12 Egypt and Syria. Tulunids, Ikhshidids, Hamdanids
Sheet 13 Egypt under the Fatamids (969 - 1171)
Sheet 14 Examples of Islamic Cities [5 sheets]
Sheet 14.1 Cairo / al-Qahira. Buildings
Sheet 14.2 Aleppo / Halab. Buildings
Sheet 14.3 Timurid Herat. Villages, Sites and Buildings Preserved or of Probable Identification
Sheet 14.4 Samarra. Development of the City of the 'Abbasid Caliphs (221 - 279 / 836 - 892)
Sheet 14.5 Safavid Isfahan / Esfahan
Sheet 16 Armenia and Georgia in the 10th and 11th Centuries
Sheet 17 Armenia and Georgia circa 1200
Sheet 18&19 Asia Minor. The Expansion of the Byzantine Empire in the 10th and 11th Century / The Byzantine Empire, the Salguqs and the Crusaders (1081 - 1204)
PART B VIII. FROM THE CRUSADER PERIOD TO 1510 [16 sheets]
Sheet 1 Middle East around 1200
Sheet 2 Middle East. Christianity from the 8th to the 14th Century
Sheet 4 Armenia and Georgia. Christianity in the Middle Ages (7th - 15th Century)
Sheet 5 Egypt. Christianity in the Medieval and Modern Periods
Sheet 6&7 Eastern Mediterranean Area 1204 - 1291 / Western Asia Minor. Byzantine and Turkmen 1291 - 1337
Sheet 8 Syria and Palestine. The Crusader States up to the End of the 12th Century
Sheet 10 Syria and Palestine. The Crusader States in the 13th Century
Sheet 12 Syria and Palestine. The Religious Military Orders
Sheet 13 Egypt under the Mamluks
Sheet 14 The Empire of the Hvarezmsahs from the Mongolian invasion in 617h / 1220 A.C. up to [...] 624 h / 1227 A.C.
Sheet 15 Iran. The Ilhanid Empire 656 - 736 h / 1258 - 1336 A.C. [E & W sheets]
Sheet 16-18 Islamic Law Schools. Palestine, Syria and Egypt / Iraq up to the Period of the Mongol Invasion 656 h / 1258 A.D. / Hurasan
Sheet 19 The Middle East 736 - 850 h / 1336 - 1447 A.D. [2 sheets]
Sheet 19.1 The Dynasties following the Ilhanid Empire and the Campaigns of Timur (736 - 807 h / 1336 - 1405 A.D.)
Sheet 19.2 The Timur Empire under Sahroh (807 - 850 h / 1405 - 1447 A.D.)
Sheet 20 The Safavid Empire.
PART B IX. THE OTTOMAN PERIOD TO 1918 [17 sheets]
Sheet 1&2 Middle East around 1500 / The Middle East around 1740
Sheet 3 Ottoman Empire until 1453
Sheet 4 Ottoman Empire 1453 - 1512
Sheet 5 Ottoman Empire 1512 - 1574
Sheet 6 Asia Minor in the 17th Century according to Evliya Celebi [E & W sheets]
Sheet 7 Ottoman Empire 1574 - 1683
Sheet 8 Ottoman Empire. Provincial Administration in the 17th and 18th Century
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