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![REZA, Mohammad [City of Tabriz Qajar Persia].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/24053_1H.jpg?fit=13251%2C10991&ssl=1)
[City of Tabriz Qajar Persia].
[Qajar,
July, 1880].
Lithograph plan, hand-coloured, dissected and mounted on linen, large and small captions in naskhi script, the various quarters of the city outlined in orange, yellow and blue, legend at upper right, gazetteer of places at lower left.
875 by 1090mm. (34.5 by 43 inches).
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The most detailed plan of Tabriz published in the nineteenth century.
The plan was commissioned by the Crown Prince Muzaffar Mirza (later Muzaffar al-Din Shah), who had been sent by his father to govern the northern provinces, Tabriz being its regional capital. The Qajar empire in the second half of the nineteenth century had begun to attempt to modernise the state and education system along European lines. The present survey was a result of that push, directed u...
The plan was commissioned by the Crown Prince Muzaffar Mirza (later Muzaffar al-Din Shah), who had been sent by his father to govern the northern provinces, Tabriz being its regional capital. The Qajar empire in the second half of the nineteenth century had begun to attempt to modernise the state and education system along European lines. The present survey was a result of that push, directed u...
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