The map shows part of the Karun River, the area surrounding Shustar. The map indicates hydrology, settlements, relief (shown by hachures), pipe and telephone lines, roads and routes, telecommunications and oil infrastructures. The map was corrected from previous surveys by triangulation, and ...
File 1093/1915 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf:- H.M. Consul at Mohammerah’
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Correspondence exchanged chiefly amongst India Office officials concerning the appointment of staff at the British Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Papers dated 1915 concern the immediate appointment to the post of Consul at Mohammerah of Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Llo...
File 705/1916 Pt 2 'Arab revolt: Arab reports; Sir M Sykes' reports'
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This item contains papers relating to British military and intelligence operations in the Hejaz and broader Arabian Peninsula during the First World War. Notably, the item contains reports by my Sir Mark Sykes relating broadly to the Anglo-French absorption of the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman E...
Map showing the route of the Nushki to Mīrjāveh railway extension
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Extract of a printed map of Persia [Iran], Afghanistan and British India, showing the frontier between Persia, Afghanistan, and British Baluchistan [present-day Pakistan]. The border between the different countries is indicated as a think line, marked blue (Afghanistan), orange (Persia) and gree...
File 3122/1921 Pt 2 'Persia: Consulates: M. O. for Consulate at Bunder Abbas'
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Correspondence, draft papers, and minutes relating to the appointment of a Medical Officer at HM Consulate Bandar Abbas. The correspondence is between the Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), Foreign Office, and India Office. Further correspondence comes from the Political Res...
File 87/1926 Pt 3 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Treaty negotiations'
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The correspondence relates to the treaty negotiations which took place at Mecca between British Government representatives and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also written in the correspondence as Bin Saud], King of the Hejaz and the Sultan of Nejd from November 1...
File 57/1928 Pt 5 'Iraq-Nejd Relations: Interpretation of the Oquair Protocol.'
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The part concerns the interpretation of Article 3 of the first Protocol signed at Oqair [Al-ʻUqayr] (also referred to as Ojair, and in various other spellings, including Oquair in the file title) on 2 December 1922, between the governments of Iraq and Najd, which provided that the vicinity of th...
This maps represents a British impression of the expansionist ambitions of the German State during the First World war derived from the writings of Pan-Germanic writings of the period, specifically those of Paul de Lagarde. The map represents the route of the railway project that links the three ...
‘FLIGHT OF THE NESTORIANS – URMIA TO BAQUBAH – SEPTEMBER 2018. RATIONS.’
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Black and white photograph of men, women and children in the middle of a desert holding cups. A note describes those featured as Nestorians [members of the Assyrian Church of the East] in flight from Urmia [Orumiyeh, Iran] and heading to Baqubah. Photograph attributed to C C Garbett (possibly Col...