The map sheet is one of four maps, numbered 1 to 4, included in IOR/L/PS/20/C204. In the body of the report it is entitled ‘Sulaimani Area’. It shows the area surrounding the town of Sulaimani [Sulaymaniyah], including the western border of Persia [Iran]. The map portrays: the rivers of the ar...
The map sheet is one of four maps, numbered 1 to 4, included in IOR/L/PS/20/C204. In the body of the report it is entitled ‘Mosul Area’. It shows the boundaries of northern Iraq, centred on the area around the city of Mosul, and including the western border of Persia [Iran], southern border of ...
The map sheet is one of four maps, numbered 1 to 4, included in IOR/L/PS/20/C204. In the body of the report it is entitled ‘International 1:1,000,000 Basra Sheet’. It shows southern Iraq, Kuwait, the northern border of modern-day Saudi Arabia, and the western border of Persia [Iran]. The map p...
Sketch map attached to a report by Bertram Thomas related to the slave trade dated 23 August 1929. Shows Yal Sa'ad country with settlements labelled and boundaries indicated by red dotted lines.
Map of slave routes between Baluchistan and Trucial States
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Sketch map attached to a report related to the slave trade by Bertram Thomas dated 23 August 1929. Shows sea and land routes of the Mekran Traffic with ports labelled; routes are depicted in detail on pages 4-5 of the report (folios 247-248).
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Map is lettered for reference with a key and explanatory note provided in accompanying text (folio 34). The area over which a prospecting license is required by the Burmah Oil Company Limited is coloured pink. Shows the Agency House and Teleg...
Imprint: Copied by Mohommad Hashim H.E. the High Commissioner’s Office. Reproduced by Survey Directorate Baghdad, No.811, Dated 3-6-21. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Upper margin: 'Map attached to appendix III of H.E. the High Commissioiner’s dispatch No. C...
Distinctive Features: A photographic copy of ‘APPENDIX IV. MAP ENCLOSURE TO H.E. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER’S DESPATCH NO. C.O/120 DATED 9TH DECEMBER 1921’. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Existing and proposed boundaries, and Turco-Persian Frontier as delimited in 1914 shown in colour...
Distinctive Features: Outline map of the Qatar Peninsula copied from the British Admiralty Chart No. 2837b and enclosed with a copy of Report on the Air Reconnaissance carried out over Qatar on 11 October 1935 (folios 72-73). Classified ‘Secret’. Shows the reconnaissance route with direction ...
Imprint: A.H.Q. [Air Headquarters] Drawing Office Iraq. Drawn by Aprim Bet-Benjamin, Nov. 1935. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Map showing the Qatar Peninsula and central part of the Eastern Province Saudi Arabia. Numerous notations concerning terrain features cover the fa...
