Touring Ottoman Lands: Murray's Routes for Southwest Asia, 1850-1900

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List of All Routes

Year

1854

1878

1895

(1878, 1895 data coming up)

Click here for a map from Murray’s “A Handbook for Travellers in Turkey” of 1854.

No.	Title
28	Marseilles, Athens or Constantinople to Smyrna.
29	Smyrna to the Troad and the Hellespont, by the Thyatira, Pergamos, and Assos - Tour of the Troad.
30	Tour of the Seven Churches: – Smyrna to Ephesus, Laodicea, Philadelphia, Sardis, Thyatira, and Pergamos.
31	Smyrna to Constantinople, by Sardis and Brousa.
32	The Dardanelles to Constantinople, by Brousa, Isnik and Ismid.
33	Constantinople to Erzeroom and Van, by Amasia and Tokat.
34	Constantinople to Kastamouni, by Isnikmid.
35	Constantinople to Busrah, by Samsoon, Diarbekir, Moussul and Bagdad.
36	Tokat to Trebizond.
37	Trebizond to Erzeroom, by Batoom and Kars.
38	Erzeroom to Kaisariyeh, by Erzingen, Diarbekir and Sivas.
39	Kaisariyeh to Tokat, by Yuzgat.
40	Kaisariyeh to Karaman.
41	Karaman to Smyrna, by Beyshehr.
42	Skutari to Konia, Tarsus and Baias.
43	Constantinople, by Afyun Karahissar and Aidinjik, to Konia and Kaisariyeh.
44	Kaisariyeh to Tarsus.
45	Konia to Gulnar on the coast.
46	Cyprus.
47	Cyprus to Aleya.
48	Aleya, by Kutaya, to Konia.
49	Shugshut to Side.
50	Adalia to Smyrna, through Lycia and Caria, by Ephesus, Laodicea, and Sardis.
51	Brousa to Smyrna, by Suleimanli and Sardis.
52	Brousa to Angora.
53	Trebizond to Tripolis and Kerasunt.
54	Constantinople to Trebizond by Sea - Sinope - Samsoon.
55	Sinope to Amasia, by Niksar, Gumenek, and Tokat.
56	Amasia to Angora and Afyun Kara-hissar.
57	Kaisariyeh to Angora.
58	Beibazar to Ismid.
59	Trebizond to Bayezid.
60	Trebizond to Erzeroom and Persia.
61	Trebizond to Bagdad, by Erzeroom, Akhlat, Bitlis, and Moussul.
62	Bagdad to Damascus — Visit to Palmyra.