The Cedid Atlas

4 NOV 2014

The Cedid Atlas (The New Atlas in Ottoman Turkish) was one of the first printed atlases in the Muslim world. It was commissioned by the Ottoman government in 1803 as part of its 19th century reforms to bring the empire up to par with other European powers. All of the maps in the atlas were thus adapted from an earlier atlas made by the English cartographer, William Faden. Only 50 copies were printed of the atlas, and of those, only about 10 survive today.

The atlas contains 24 colored maps of various regions of the world. Images of these maps are below.

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World Map

The North and South Poles

Eastern and Western Hemispheres

Asia

Africa

Europe

North and South America

The Anatolian Peninsula and Fertile Crescent

Anatolia and the Balkans – Political

Anatolia and the Balkans – Geographic

Egypt and the Nile Delta

Greece and the Aegean Sea

The Iberian and Italian Peninsulas and the North African Coast

England and Wales

Scotland

The English Channel

The French Monarchy

The French Republic

The Low Countries, including Luxembourg, Flanders, and Brabant

Poland, Prussia, and Lithuania

German states

The early United States of America

Caribbean Islands

The northwestern coast of South America, including Guyana and parts