National Archive restores old Georgian maps

Map of Georgia, Armenia and Kurdistan published in Berlin in 1854. From the collection of Georgia’s National Archive.
Agenda.ge, 18 Dec 2014 - 16:27, Tbilisi,Georgia

Unique maps preserved in storage of Georgia’s National Archive in Tbilisi will be renovated and converted into digital format.

Renovation works have already started at the Laboratory of Restoration of National Archive. The restoration work is a part of the Electronic Cartography project.

This year almost 50 old and unique maps showing Georgia’s boundaries and territories in the 18-20th Centuries were renovated and published on the Internet.

Map of the Russia-Turkey war published in 1829. From the collection of Georgia's National Archive. 

Map of North-West Caucasus dated 1816, Caucasus map published in 1903 as well as dozens of other cartography pieces can be found at the Georgia’s National Archive’s Flick account.

The Electronic Cartography project aimed to provide identification and digitalisation of these old maps and put them together in the online catalogue.