A map of Mesopotamia and western Iran indicating railway routes. The map also shows hydrology and human settlements. The railway lines are colour coded to indicate gauge width. A note at the bottom of the sheet states that it was copied from Plan No. S 2434 and Plan No. S 2212 of the Director o...
‘Nasiriyah-Qurnah. Showing Communications, Waterways and Surrounding Country’
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Imprint: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Calcutta. M.A. Hakimkhan, Draftsman. Distinctive Features: Sketch map showing the river system between Nasiriyah and Qurnah produced to illustrate ‘Report on the Development of Mesopotamia’. Title continues: ‘Produced by Survey Party...
‘Cross Sections of the River Tigris between Baghdad and Basra’
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Distinctive Features: Seven longitudinal sections produced to illustrate ‘Report on the Development of Mesopotamia’ showing water levels in high flood including flood discharge and tide with mean sea levels recorded during 1915 survey. Measurements reported and compared with Sir William Willcoc...
Imprint: Ordnance Survey, 1921. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. General map of Southern Mesopotamia from Baghdad down to the Persian Gulf with Turco-Persian frontier indicated by dash-dot line, and areas liable to inundation, marshes and channels, including a new channel be...
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume II, Irak, The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, May, 1917), covering the regions of the Shatt el-‘Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab], Kārūn, Luristan, and the Tigris and Euphrates up to Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallūjah]. The v...
The map highlights the regions of Turanian-speaking peoples in the world, and is colour-coded to indicate majority and minority regions of: Turks; Urgo-Finns and Samoyeds; Mongols and Manchu-Tungusians. Red text overlaid on the map outlines the percentage or number of people which it counts as re...
