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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Syria, Middle East Level [41] Item

1. Add MS 45158 C, f 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45158 C, f 1
Title:
Sketch map of the area west of the Ma‘arrat an Nu‘mān, Syria
Scope & Content:
Sketch-map of the area west of Ma‘arrat an Nu‘mān, Syria, drawn by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell. The map indicates the names and locations of settlements. Aside from an outline in the northwest quarter of the map, which may represent a body of water, no other topographic details are shown. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 map

2. IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 154-210

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 154-210
Title:
Military Affairs in Afghanistan, India, Egypt and Syria, and Turkish Arabia
Scope & Content:
The item comprises enclosures to a despatch, Number 117 of 1839, dated 25 October 1839, from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee containing a précis of the latest financial, military, political and general intelligence on: Lahore; Mooltan [Multan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1839
Extent:
1 item (57 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 260-882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 260-882
Title:
Affairs in Various Places in Asia and the Middle East
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 93 of 1840, dated 31 October 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-244 and are dated 13 January to 31 October 1840. Enclosure numbers 20-31, 121-26...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (623 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/67/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/1
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Lord Mornington, Governor-General of Bengal, to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
A dispatch from Lord Mornington, Governor-General of Bengal, at Fort St George, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 3 September 1799, regarding: the dispatch of an embassy to the court of Baba Khan [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], King [Shah] of Persia [Iran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 1799-5 Sep 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/76/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/39
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Jacob Bosanquet, John Blankett and Robert Abbott
Scope & Content:
Copies of three letters from Harford Jones, newly appointed Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Vienna and Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to Bagdad in July-August 1798: 1. A letter to Jacob Bosanquet, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Vienna and dat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 July 1798-18 Aug 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/76/92

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/92
Title:
Report on Syria
Scope & Content:
A report compiled by John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, concerning the feasibility of a French army reaching the Euphrates and the entrance to the Persian Gulf from Syria. It covers issues including: The grain surplus in Aleppo Roads from Latichia [Latakia] and Alexandretta [Iskenderun] to the Eu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1799
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/781/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/781/2
Title:
File 36/1919 Pt 2 ‘Kurdistan: Policy & Future of’
Scope & Content:
This part primarily contains correspondence, telegrams, memoranda and reports regarding the political and social situation in Kurdistan between 1918 and 1920. The part includes and covers the following: Administration of occupied territory in Mosul Vilayet Conversations regarding the Franco-Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Oct 1918-24 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 item (292 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/263, f 152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/263, f 152
Title:
Sketch Maps to Shew Railways in Asia Minor
Scope & Content:
A War Office map, dated January 1907. The map shows the following railway lines: British; French; Anglo-Franco-German; the Baghdad Railway System; the Anatolian Railway; Turkish Railways; Egyptian 'State' Railways; and Russian Railways. The map also marks out the Ordu Territorial Districts [co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1907
Extent:
1 map

9. IOR/W/L/PS/18/B356 (ii)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W/L/PS/18/B356 (ii)
Title:
MAP NO.2: SOUTHERN FRONTIER OF TURKEY IN ASIA
Scope & Content:
This map shows Turkey where it is included in Asia and indicates the boundaries between Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia and the Old Frontier. The map also indicates relief with contours. The map includes a printing statement which reads '(B 16479) WT 18378-212.5050.10/20.H&S,LTD.'
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920?
Extent:
1 map

10. Mss Eur F112/552, f 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/552, f 7
Title:
'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia'. With manuscript annotations relating to the Hejaz railway
Scope & Content:
Bears the imprint 'Published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1910. Railways inserted to November, 1915'. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights, roads, railways, telegraphs, settlements, place names and international boundaries. Manuscript annotations highlight four sites on the Hejaz rai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1917?
Extent:

1 map sheet