Mesilah ḥadashah = Plan de la Colonie Messilah Hadascha : ex propriete Hassan Pacha Tchiftlique; מסלה חדשה

Contributor:

Messila Hadascha (Istanbul, Turkey) (issuing body); Elnécave, J., (Joseph) (cartographer); Jewish Colonization Association (associated name)

Timespan:

20th century

Date:

1917

Description:

Manuscript map of the proposed Messila Hadascha Colony, near Silahtar, a village in Kağıthane, Istanbul region, Turkey.

Language:

French; Hebrew; Turkish

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Rıfat N. Bali (Istanbul, Turkey); purchased December 2018.; Bali, Rıfat N., 1948- former owner.

Subject:

Agricultural colonies -- Turkey -- 20th century; Jews -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- Sources

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

cartographic materials; maps (documents); manuscripts (documents); Manuscript maps; Topological maps; cadastral maps

Physical Description:

1 map : color illustrations; 123 x 252 cm

Geographic Subject:

Istanbul (Turkey); Sancaktepe (Istanbul, Turkey); Kağıthane (Turkey)

Related Place:

Turkey -- Istanbul,

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

In French and Turkish; upper caption in Hebrew.; Messila Hadascha Colony (also known as Messila Hadassa) was a Jewish Colonization Association agricultural project established circa 1911, to be located in the Silahtar region, near Istanbul, resettling and providing for Jewish refugees from Russia. It closed during the 1920s following the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and Jewish emigration from Turkey.; Pictorial legend: "Limites; Caneaux & sources; Chemins; Terrain labourable; [Terrain] de Paturage & montagnes; Forets & Jardins; Etang; Constructions".; Bodies of water and small agricultural plots colored.; Additional map inset: "Terrain d' Maidane dans le Village de Samandra, cope de la vielle carte, Echelle 1:500". Samandıra, Istanbul, Turkey (on the Asian side of the Bosphorus Strait).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection (was Maps), Mapcase G7431 M2 1912