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Paperback. Oblong 4to. (26 x 26,5 cm). Parallel text in English and Turkish. 79 p., fully color ills. Ankara on the maps: Ankara maps and plans. A selection from Collections.= Haritalarda Ankara: Ankara haritalari ve planlari. Koleksiyonlardan bir seçki. [Exhibition catalogue]. Texts by Filiz Yenisehirlioglu, Gökçe Günel, Osman Alp. Includes 65 maps and plans of Ankara city from 17th century to the present day by various Europe and Ottoman / Turkish cartographers and map-makers. The exhibition intends to present some of the various forgotten maps and plans of Ankara, originally produced in the books of local and foreign travelers and in encyclopedias; large-scale maps of various districts and villages of Ankara; maps of various scales produced by the General Command of Mapping till early 2000s in addition to the selection of works from primarily VEKAM collection and some other private collections Presenting the urban transformation of Ankara from the Ottoman Era to the Republic of Turkey in a chronological order, this exhibition, envisaged and designed to serve as a documentary and inventory of our capital city of Ankara to appeal researchers and facilitate further research. However, there are still, other maps of Ankara, which are not included in the exhibition, or remained beyond our reach.