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Abstract:

The progressive exiles of Bahá'u'lláh through the Middle East. Includes timeline.

Notes:

Reprinted here by permission. Place names on the map have been corrected, caption text below the map has been correctly transliterated, and alternative names (modern or new names) have been added to help locate the named places [Mike Thomas, 2017]; see legend, below [PDF].

Crossreferences:

Map of Stages in Baha'u'llah's Successive Exiles from Tihran to Akka (1968); Early History of the Bahá'í Faith (2015 map)

Map of the Travels of Baha'u'llah

National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the Hawaiian Islands, compiler

1991

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vector version
(M. Thomas, 2020,
prepared for this book)

The "Map of the Travels of Bahá'u'lláh" shows His progressive exiles through the Middle East. Since the text at the bottom of the map can only be read in the largest image, it's also reproduced below (due to time constraints, the chronology portion of the legend has not been reproduced).

Legend

	Bahá'u'lláh's Exile Jan. 12, 1853 - Aug. 31, 1868 (235 Days)
	Bahá'u'lláh's Pilgrimage To Holy Cities In Iraq Early August - 1851-1852
	Bahá'u'lláh's Travels Summer 1848

Photos

1.	Hamlet of Badasht
2.	Amul, where Bahá'u'lláh was bastinadoed
3.	Takur - Bahá'u'lláh's summer house
4.	Tihran - Bahá'u'lláh's house
5.	Karbila - Shrine of Imam Husayn
6.	Constantinople - house where Bahá'u'lláh stayed
7.	Adrianople - Bahá'u'lláh wrote letters to Kings and Rulers of the World
8.	'Akka - "The Most Great Prison"
9.	'Akka - House of 'Abbud, where Bahá'u'lláh wrote the Kitab-i-Aqdas
10.	Bahji — mansion where Bahá'u'lláh lived.

Cities

I	—	HAMLET OF BADASHT
2	—	SHAH-RUD
3	—	RANDAR-GAZ
4	—	NIYALA
5	—	FORT TABARSI
6	—	AMUL
7	—	TAKUR
8	—	TIHRAN
9	—	REY
10	—	HASAN-ABAD
11	—	QALAY-I-MUHAMMAD ALl KHAN
12	—	ALI-ABAD
13	—	KUSHK-I-NOSRAT
14	—	BAGHER-ABAD
15	—	MANZARIYYIH
16	—	QUM
17	—	TALAB
18	—	DEHI-TAJ-KHATOON
19	—	JAHROOD
20	—	SIYAVISHIH
21	—	SAROOGH
22	—	DIZ-ABAD
23	—	HAMAD
24	—	GARDANIHY-I-ASSAD-ABAD
25	—	ASSAD-ABAD
26	—	KANGAVAR
27	—	SAHNIH
28	—	BISOTOON
29	—	KERMANSHAH

30	—	MAHI-DASHT
31	—	HAROON-ABAD
32	—	KARAND
33	—	SORKHIH-DIZIH
34	—	SAR POL-I-ZAHAB
35	—	QASR-I-SHIRIN
36	—	KHOSRAVI
37	—	KHANAQIN — IRAQ
38	—	CHIZIL-ROBAT
39	—	SHAHRIBAN
40	—	BA'GHOOBIE
41	—	BAGHDAD
42	—	DHI'L-QA'DIH
43	—	JUDAYDIH
44	—	DILI-'ABBAS
45	—	QARIH-TAPIH
46	—	SALAHIYYIH
47	—	DUST-KHURMATU
48	—	TAWUQ
49	—	KARKUK
50	—	IRBIL
51	—	BY THE RIVER
52	—	BARTALLIH
53	—	MOSUL
54	—	ZAKHU
55	—	JAZIRIH
56	—	NISHIBIN
57	—	HASAN-AQA
58	—	MARDIN

59	—	DIYAR-BAKR
60	—	MA'DAN-MIS
61	—	KHARPUT
62	—	MA'DAN-NUQRIH
63	—	DILIK-TASH
64	—	SIVAS
65	—	TUQAT
66	—	AMASIA
67	—	ILAHIYYIH
68	—	SAMSUN ON THE BLACK SEA
69	—	SINOPE
70	—	ANYABULI
71	—	CONSTANTINOPLE
72	—	KUCHIK-CHAKMACHIH
73	—	BUYUK-CHAKMACHIH
74	—	SALVARI
75	—	BIRKAS
76	—	BABA-ISKI
77	—	ADRIANOPLE
78	—	LTZUN-KUPRI
79	—	KASHANIH
80	—	GALLIPOLI
81	—	MADDELLI
82	—	SMYRNA
83	—	ALEXANDRIA
84	—	PORT SAID
85	—	JAFFA
86	—	HAIFA
87	—	'AKKA

Legend (with chronology section at end):

Download: map_travels_bahaullah.pdf.

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