File 978/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: administration; occupation of Baghdad; the proclamation; Sir P Cox's position'
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This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding negotiations and administration, largely between the India Office, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Cox, and the Government of India, after the occupation of Baghdad (Fall of Baghdad) on 10 March 1917. The negotiations con...
Coll 15/2 'Egypt. Acceptance of foreign decorations by Egyptian subjects'
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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, 'regarding the desire of the Egyptian Government that the text of their latest regulations governing the acceptance by Egyptian subjects of foreign decorations may be communicated to the government of Muscat and Oman...
Coll 30/117 'Persian Gulf. Bahrain Grievances of the Baharinah.'
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The papers in this file relate to the grievances of the Baharnah (the native population of Bahrain). The papers include: The petition of the Baharnah to the Ruler of Bahrain Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa requesting the adoption of a Qanun (code of laws) in the courts, proportional representati...
The volume discusses the ongoing negotiations in Constantinople between the Ottoman, British and Russian Governments through 1912 and 1913 regarding the Turco-Persian Frontier. Also discussed is the decision in July 1913 to establish a delimitation commission to which Albert Charles Wratislaw an...
This volume, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, concerns affairs on the Nejd-Transjordan frontier and relations between Hejaz-Nejd (later Saudi Arabia) and Transjordan generally. The beginning of the volume's correspondence follows on from IO...
This volume, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, concerns affairs on the Nejd-Transjordan frontier and relations between Saudi Arabia and Transjordan generally. The volume's correspondence follows on from IOR/L/PS/12/2102, documenting the Briti...
Persian Gulf Affairs: The Murder at Bushire of the Governor of the Roodhilla Districts
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This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 154 of 1846, dated 31 December 1846. The enclosures are dated 14 September-21 November 1846. The enclosures concern events following the recent murder of Shaik ...
File 4744/1915 Pt 1 'German War - Arabia. The Arab Bureau at Cairo'
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The papers concern the establishment and work of the Arab Bureau at Cairo, a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department, which was set up to co-ordinate Arabian and Islamic intelligence in the face of German and Turkish propaganda, which had been making rapid headway in the region during the F...
Coll 6/81 'Syria: Status of Alexandretta and Antioch.'
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This file documents the British response to developments regarding the status of the Sanjak [administrative district, referred to in Arabic as Liwa] of Alexandretta, including the cities of Alexandretta [İskenderun, Turkey] and Antioch [Antakya, Turkey]. The file features the following principa...
The Lease of Bunder Abbass Signed by the Representatives of Persia and Muscat
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 181 of 1868, dated 20 October 1868, including an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-4, dated 5-17 October 1868. The enclosures comprise a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to ...
