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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Boundary disputes Name HM Ambassador to Iran, 1807-1980

1. IOR/L/PS/10/266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/266
Title:
File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the disputed Turco-Persian Frontier, particularly at Mohammerah, and the negotiations in Constantinople to attempt to settle it. The correspondence focuses on: the differences of opinion over the actual boundary at Mohammerah, including several maps demonstrating these diff...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1912-25 Sep 1912
Extent:
1 volume (436 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/267
Title:
File 1356/1912 Pt 2 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople. (Mohammerah Boundary)'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the ongoing negotiations in Constantinople between the Ottoman, British and Russian Governments through 1912 and 1913 regarding the Turco-Persian Frontier. Also discussed is the decision in July 1913 to establish a delimitation commission to which Albert Charles Wratislaw an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Aug 1912-4 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2869

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2869
Title:
Coll 17/15(1) 'Perso-Iraq Relations: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers regarding relations between Persia [Iran] and Iraq. It primarily concerns the frontier delineated by the 1913-1914 Boundary Commission, in particular Persian claims over areas of the Shatt el-Arab, and rights to oilfields in the Naft Khana [Naft Khāna] or Khaniqin [Khā...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1933-15 Mar 1935
Extent:
1 volume (476 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2870

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2870
Title:
Coll 17/15(2) 'Relations with Persia: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of Collection 17/5, and contains papers regarding negotiations between Persia [Iran] and Iraq at the League of Nations in 1935, mediated by Italian delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi. The papers primarily consist of communications regarding the negotiations submitted to t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Feb 1935-15 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 volume (502 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B397

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B397
Title:
Status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa, and Sirri
Scope & Content:
Document outlining the status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa, and Sirri. It includes the following: an introduction to the status of the islands; a history of the islands prior to 1887; the occupation of Sirri by Persia, 1887; the temporary Persian occupation of Abu Musa and Tamb,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1928
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/C49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C49
Title:
Perso-Afghan frontier. Report on Hashtadan
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the disputed Hashtadan lands, on the Perso-Afghan frontier. It begins with a confidential letter, dated 24 May 1885, from Colonel Joseph West Ridgeway, Assistant Commissioner in charge, Afghan Boundary Commission, Camp Sinjao, to Earl Granville [Granville George Leveson-Gower,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1885
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C64a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C64a
Title:
Memorandum by Sir M Durand on the situation in Persia
Scope & Content:
This memorandum was created on the 27 September 1895 by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary to Tehran, and printed for the use of the Foreign Office in December 1895. It outlines the current situation in Persia [Iran] and the steps which should be taken to improve the position of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1895
Extent:

21 folios

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C65

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C65
Title:
The History of Seistan and Lash-Jowain
Scope & Content:
This document was compiled and signed by H Le Poer Wynne (Foreign Department) and covers the history of Seistan and Lash-Jowain [Lāsh-e Juwayn], including the dispute over sovereignty which led to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-7). The document is divided into the following sections: 1. The histo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1870
Extent:

38 folios