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

Format:

Manuscript

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

Messila Hadascha (Istanbul, Turkey), issuing body.

Contributor:

Elnécave, J., (Joseph), cartographer.

Bali, Rıfat N., 1948- former owner.

Jewish Colonization Association, associated name.

Language:

French

Hebrew

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Agricultural colonies--Turkey--20th century.

Agricultural colonies.

Jews--Turkey--Istanbul--History--Sources.

Jews.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Sancaktepe (Istanbul, Turkey).

Kağıthane (Turkey).

Genre:

Manuscript maps.

Topological maps.

Cadastral maps.

Physical Description:

1 map : color illustrations ; 123 x 252 cm

Scale 1:5,000

Production:

[Istanbul?] : J. Elnécave, Le 7 Fevrier 1912.

Cartographic Data:

Scale 1:5,000

Language Note:

In French and Turkish; upper caption in Hebrew.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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

Notes:

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).

OCLC:

1572662052