title: Cartographies of the ‘Eastern Question’: Some Considerations on Mapping the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea in the Nineteenth Century
abstract: The Sea of Marmara,the Black Sea, and the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits have always been geographicallyand, therefore, politicallycrucial for the state ruling Istanbul.Centuries of intermittent warring between the Ottoman Empire and their enemies oftenp ivoted on the qualityo fn aval knowledge of this region. In this article, Ia im to give an overviewo fh ow cartographical developments progressed alongsidet he geo-political strugglesi nt his area, and sometimes playedarole in them. Is uggest 