Late 19th-Century Transportation and Population Centers in Turkey, Arabia, and Oman

Shapefiles illustrate highways, caravan routes, steamship lines, telegraph cables, railways, and key points like forts and lighthouses. These layers depict the late 19th-century transportation grid and population centres within the broader region. The dataset was authored by Nejjar, Sawsene and last updated on 2025-10-14.

Use Cases

• Mapping historical trade and communication corridors based on caravan routes and steamship lines.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of military and navigational infrastructure based on forts and lighthouses.
• Studying the integration of transportation networks based on the combination of railways, highways, and submarine telegraph cables.
• Visualizing population centers in relation to the 19th-century transportation grid mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific historical period (late 19th century) for temporal clarity.
• Includes multiple, distinct geospatial layers such as routes, lines, and points for multifaceted analysis.
• Covers a defined geographic region encompassing Turkey, Arabia, and Oman.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Historic shapefiles

Time Range

1897

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-14 16:50:26; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Turkey, Arabia, Oman, and Aden region