A Russian naval officer's chart of Haifa Bay (1772)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11939028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mitia Frumin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Rehav Rubin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dov Gavish (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 125-128 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Imago Mundi (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5694 • E-ISSN: 1479-7801 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085690208592963 |
| OpenAlex | W2075481675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
The history of the surveying and charting of the Aegean Sea and the Straits by the Russian Navy during the 1770s has been the subject of a number of papers in Imago Mundi.' Many of the maps and charts resulting from the Russian expeditions were eventually included in the Atlas arkhipelaga [Atlas of the Archipelago], as the Russians called the Aegean, which was published in St Petersburg in 1788.2 Although the Eastern Mediterranean was outside the Russian fleet's main operational zone, data collected by Russian seamen during the First Archipelago Expedition (1769-1774) resulted in the production of charts of three different Levant ports, Beyrouth, Sidon, and Haifa (Acre) Bay. All three were associated with the complex political relations between the Russians and Ali-Bey, a rebel subject of the Ottoman Porte.3 The chart of the Bay of Haifa (Acre) in the Atlas of the Archipelago was based on data collected by Russian seamen during their period of activity in the Levant between 1772 and 1774. Another chart, however, which differs from that in the Atlas, was included in a book published by Sergey Ivanovich Pleshcheyev (1752-1802) in 1773. Pleshcheyev was a Russian naval officer who spent about two months in the autumn of 1772 in Palestine on a
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2002 - 2010 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |