File containing correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the creation of the League of Nations mandates, by which the administration of former colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire [Turkey] was granted variously to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Japan. Much of the file i...
The Establishment of Mandates, Principally: Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria
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This file contains papers relating to the establishment of mandates which were drawn up under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations (signed on 28 June 1919 as part of the Treaty of Versailles that officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers). The papers ...
Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil
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Letters and papers on the frontier between Iraq (also written as Irak in the file) and Turkey, with particular reference to Mosul and questions concerning oil. The file consists mainly of correspondence between Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Curzon, and officials in the Foreign Of...
Correspondence about Mosul and still more about oil (mainly with Walter Long) 1922-23.
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The file consists of correspondence between Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Curzon and other personalities concerning the substance of negotiations and treaties relating to the Mosul vilayet and related issues of oil resources. There are a total of sixteen letters between Curzon an...
Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's Travels through Persia
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This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes and sketches in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes mostly relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notebook begins with general notes; later folios resemble diary entries, with date headings included from folio 36 ...
Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's travels through Persia
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This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes, which follow on from an earlier notebook, Mss Eur F112/365, relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notes cover the period 25 November 1889 to 2 January 1890 and particularly ...
Notes of a journey from Kasreen to Hamadan across the Karaghan country. By J. D. Rees
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The volume consists of the printed notes taken by John David Rees, Under-Secretary to the Government of Madras, during his journey between Kasveen [Qazvin] and Hamadan, Persia [Iran]. The notes were printed by the Government Press at Madras [Chennai], in October 1885. The volume contains a map ...
‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’
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This volume is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1886 edition). It was compiled for political and military reference by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, Assistant Quarter Master General, in 1871, and brought up to 31 July 1885 by the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Mast...
This black and white print of a drawing shows a view of Akdarband, a pass in the Tabut-Kah subdivision of Eastern Khurasan [Khorāsān], Persia [Iran], situated in the Mudaran mountains on the southernmost road from Mashhad to Sarakhs. The pass guarded both the mountain pass and the passage of the...
This black and white print of a plan shows Ak-Kala, a fort on the south side of the river Gurgan in Astarabad, Persia [Iran], 10.5 miles (16.9 kilometres) from the city of Astarabad [Gorgan], and about 35 miles (56.33 kilometres) from the Atrak river. The plan indicates the twelve roomed doubl...
