Meroua. Mecca. Saudi Arabia. 1847.
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Print of steel engraving titled „Meroua.“.
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From „Arabie, par M. Noel Desvergers, vice-president de la societe de geographie, Avec une carte de L‘arabie et note sur cette carte, par M. Jomard, membre de l‘institut. Paris, Firmin didot freres, editeurs, imprimeurs de l‘institut de France, 1847.
A sacred place called Meroua, formed by three great walls, and situated in another of the streets of Mecca. Mecca is a city in the Hejaz in Saudi Arabia. It is the capital of that kingdom's Makkah Region. The city is located 70 km inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of 277 m above sea level. Its resident population in 2012 was roughly 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during the hajj ("pilgrimage") period held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah.
Approx. image size 20,4 x 12,3/13,2 x 9, 5 cm.Condition: good.
Drawn by unknown.
Engraved by unknown.
From „Arabie, par M. Noel Desvergers, vice-president de la societe de geographie, Avec une carte de L‘arabie et note sur cette carte, par M. Jomard, membre de l‘institut. Paris, Firmin didot freres, editeurs, imprimeurs de l‘institut de France, 1847.
A sacred place called Meroua, formed by three great walls, and situated in another of the streets of Mecca. Mecca is a city in the Hejaz in Saudi Arabia. It is the capital of that kingdom's Makkah Region. The city is located 70 km inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of 277 m above sea level. Its resident population in 2012 was roughly 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during the hajj ("pilgrimage") period held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah.
Approx. image size 20,4 x 12,3/13,2 x 9, 5 cm.Condition: good.
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Meroua. Mecca. Saudi Arabia. 1847.
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