Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East
The Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East (TAVO) was an interdisciplinary research project organized between 1969 and 1993 by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as a Collaborative Research Center ( Collaborative Research Center 19 “Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East” ), which was located at the University of Tübingen and comprised 14 different sub-disciplines united. The aim and result of the research project was a thematic regional atlas of the countries of the Middle East . He was recognized by the Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag and published between 1976 and 1994 as a loose-leaf atlas.
The atlas comprises 296 sheets of 72 × 50 cm with around 400 maps. In addition, there are three index volumes and 130 supplements that supplement and in-depth the map topics. The geographic area covered extends from Turkey to Afghanistan in the north and from Egypt to Yemen in the south. The overview maps are implemented on a scale of 1: 8 million, larger sub-areas are shown in scales of 1: 4 million, 1: 2 million and 1: 1 million, exemplary sample areas in 1: 500,000 and larger. The legends and other explanatory texts are bilingual in English and German.
Involved
The following university faculties, departments and subjects worked on the project:
- Evangelical Theological Faculty
- Biblical archeology
- Judaic Studies
- History Faculty
- Old story
- Middle and Modern History
- Faculty of Cultural Studies
- Egyptology
- Ancient Near Eastern Studies
- Christian Orient
- Islamkunde
- Prehistory and early history
- Faculty of Earth Sciences
- geography
- geology
- Prehistory / archeozoology
structure
The atlas is divided into two large thematic sub-areas, each of which is divided into ten thematic sections. The geographical part A is arranged according to a regional schema and contains maps on the topics of nature, population, settlement, economy and transport. The historical part B deals with the history of the area from the Stone Age to the present. Partial maps cover topics related to settlement and territorial history , economic , cultural and religious history in chronological order . Historical maps supplement the atlas on four pages in a special series.
The thematic maps on Palestine / Israel, which are relevant for Bible study and biblical studies , were later summarized separately and published again under the label Tübingen Bible Atlas (Stuttgart 2001). Of its 27 maps, 24 have been taken over from the TAVO unchanged in terms of content, and a map of the Sinai Peninsula has also been newly created.
Part A - Geography
- AI relief, water and settlement: 8 map sheets
- A II Geology: 7 sheets of maps
- A III Geomorphology : 8 map sheets
- A IV climate: 5 sheets of maps
- AV Hydrogeography : 4 sheets of maps
- A VI Vegetation / Zoology: 21 map sheets
- A VII Natural structure : 4 map sheets
- A VIII Population: 21 sheets of maps
- A IX settlement: 16 sheets of maps
- AX Economy and Transport: 27 map sheets
Part B - story
- BI Stone Age: 19 map sheets
- B II Early and Middle Bronze Age : 20 map sheets
- B III Second half of the 2nd millennium BC Chr .: 8 sheets of maps
- B IV The first millennium BC Until the time of Alexander the Great : 25 sheets of maps
- BV Hellenism : 21 sheets of maps
- B VI Late Antiquity : 14 map sheets
- B VII The spread of Islam up to the first crusade (up to 1096): 21 sheets of maps
- B VIII From the cruise time to 1510: 16 sheets of maps
- B IX The Ottoman period up to 1918: 17 map sheets
- BX The time after the First World War : 9 sheets of maps
- BS Historical Maps: 4 sheets of maps
The individual cards are made accessible through supplements. The project, which was completed in 1993, attracted a great deal of attention both at home and abroad - and especially in what is now the Middle East.
The plant collection of the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East is now part of the Herbarium Tubingense (TUB) of the University of Tübingen and is managed by the Museum of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT .