The map shows the port of Basra and the location of various buildings including the British consulate, German Agency, Turkish naval hospital and quarantine ships in the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
'GROUND PLAN OF THE GREAT MOSQUE OF NEJEF MESHED ALI'
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The plan shows the ground plan of the Great Mosque of Nejef. It shows the different areas, gates, window, the tomb of Ali, and the location of the Sunni mosque and the mosque of the Dervishes.
The map is appended to a Memorandum on Persian Railways (f 184), and shows the Persian Gulf and portions of adjacent countries, indicating the routes of railway lines and telegraphs, hydrology, coastal headlands, relief with spot heights, district names, major towns and cities, international bou...
Sketch map of the area surrounding Hawizeh [Hoveyzah]. The map was executed by overseer S Firuz Bakht under the supervision of Lieutenant Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, CMG, Political Department.
'ROUGH SKETCH SHOWING PROBABLE RIVER SYSTEM NEAR MOHAMMERAH ABOUT 1750.'
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Sketch of the river system near Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] with coastlines and rivers drawn in pencil and place names typed over the drawing. Names of rivers have been written in ink. The sketch was included in notes on Alwyn Parker's memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Tur...
surveyed by Lieutenants W C Taylor, E W Danson and E H Daughlish, RIM. Assisted by Commander F Walter, RN and officers of HMS Odin under the direction of Commander C S Hickman, RIM in charge of the marine survey of India. The map was surveyed March-April 1911. The map includes a key showing the...
Map showing the mouth of the Shat-al-'Arab [Shatt Al Arab] and the marshland areas along its banks. Traced from the Admiralty Chart. Lithographed in the Intelligence Division of the War Office, June 1897.
'SKETCH MAP OF MOHAMMERAH AND DISTRICT PREPARED IN 1850'
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Sketch map showing Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and its surrounding district, prepared by Alwyn Parker in 1912 based on an original from 1850. The map features coloured lines showing the differing opinions of the location of the Turco-Persian Frontier at Mohammerah. The green line shows the propos...
Map Illustrating the Two Differing Lines of the Turco-Persian Frontier at Muhammerah
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Map showing the boundary line for the Turco-Persian Frontier at Muhammerah [Khorramshahr] as agreed by the mediating commissioners in 1850 and the boundary line as it is locally recognised. The mediating commissioners' line is marked as a red line, and the locally agreed boundary is marked with ...