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Turkey\u2014or T\u00fcrkiye, as Erdo\u011fan wants us to call it\u2014has a Museum of Cartography<\/a>, located in a military district in Ankara. T\u00fcrkiye Today<\/em> has a short profile<\/a>. It seems … modest, all things considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkey\u2014or T\u00fcrkiye, as Erdo\u011fan wants us to call it\u2014has a Museum of Cartography, located in a military district in Ankara. T\u00fcrkiye Today has a short profile. It seems … modest, all things considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[312,150,861],"class_list":["post-1836430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-history-of-cartography","tag-museums","tag-turkey","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787849,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/cartography-the-ideal-and-its-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836430,"position":0},"title":"Cartography: The Ideal and Its History","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 October 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Matthew H. 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